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

Author: Hyman, Louis, 1977-

Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

ISBN: 9780691140681 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0691140685 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Description: [ix], 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Subject: 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.

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.