Hyman Debtor Nation

The History of America in Red Ink
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3840-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 87, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Politics and Society in Modern America

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyman, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

An Introduction to the History of Debt 1

Chapter One: Making Credit Modern: The Origins of the Debt Infrastructure in the 1920s 10

Chapter Two: Debt and Recovery: New Deal Housing Policy and the Making of National Mortgage Markets 45

Chapter Three: How Commercial Bankers Discovered Consumer Credit: The Federal Housing Administration and Personal Loan Departments, 1934-1938 73

Chapter Four: War and Credit: Government Regulation and Changing Credit Practices 98

Chapter Five: Postwar Consumer Credit: Borrowing for Prosperity 132

Chapter Six: Legitimating the Credit Infrastructure: Race, Gender, and Credit Access 173

Chapter Seven: Securing Debt in an Insecure World: Credit Cards and Capital Markets 220

Epilogue: Debt as Choice, Debt as Structure 281

Acknowledgments 289

Abbreviations 291

Notes 293

References 363

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Louis Hyman is assistant professor of history at the ILR School of Cornell University.