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Hyman, Louis, 1977-

Debtor nation the history of America in red ink / [electronic resource] : Louis Hyman. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - 378 p. : ill. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America . - Politics and society in twentieth-century America. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s -- Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets -- How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments -- War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices -- Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity -- Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access -- Securing debt in an insecure world -- Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Consumer credit--History--United States--20th century.
Debt--History--United States--20th century.
Loans, Personal--History--United States--20th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
United States--Economic policy--20th century.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HG3756.U54 / H96 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 332.70973