ISBN:
9780691140681
Language:
English
Pages:
378 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Hyman, Louis Debtor nation
DDC:
332.70973
Keywords:
Verbraucherkredit
;
Private Verschuldung
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Consumer credit History 20th century
;
Debt History 20th century
;
Loans, Personal History 20th century
;
United States Economic conditions 20th century
;
United States Economic policy 20th century
;
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
;
USA
;
Konsumentenkredit
;
Überschuldung
;
Geschichte 1900-1999
Description / 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364] and index
