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
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