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Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink /

Hyman, Louis, 1977-

Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - [ix], 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Politics and society in twentieth-century America .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] 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.

9780691140681 (hbk. : alk. paper)

2010031594


Consumer credit--History--United States--20th century.
Debt--History--United States--20th century.
Loans, Personal--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
United States--Economic policy--20th century.

HG3756.U54 / H96 2011

332.70973

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