Debtor nation the history of America in red ink

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...

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1. Verfasser: Hyman, Louis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ u.a. Princeton University Press c 2011
Schriftenreihe:Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] and index
Beschreibung:378 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:9780691140681
978-0-691-14068-1