TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyman,Louis
TI  - Debtor nation: the history of America in red ink 
T2  - Politics and society in twentieth-century America
SN  - 9780691140681 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HG3756.U54 H96 2011
U1  - 332.70973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Consumer credit
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Debt
KW  - Loans, Personal
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - 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
ER  -