Debtor nation [electronic resource] : the history of America in red ink / Louis Hyman.
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Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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