Debtor nation the history of America in red ink /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.