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Debtor nation [electronic resource] : the history of America in red ink /

by Hyman, Louis; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Politics and society in twentieth-century America: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011Description: 378 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Consumer credit -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Debt -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Loans, Personal -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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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