Hyman, Louis,  1977- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691140681 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010031594 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumer credit--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Debt--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Loans, Personal--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Economic conditions--20th century.<br/>United States--Economic policy--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG3756.U54  / H96 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.70973