Debtor nation : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hyman, Louis, 1977-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Series:	Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Subjects:	Consumer credit > United States > History > 20th century. Debt > United States > History > 20th century. Loans, Personal > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Economic conditions > 20th century. United States > Economic policy > 20th century.

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.

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