Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

✍ Scribed by Calder, Lendol

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2001;2009
Tongue: English
Series: Princeton Paperbacks
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Credit, Consumer Culture, and the American Dream3Pt. 1Getting Trusted: Debt and Credit before Consumer Credit35Ch. 1Beautiful Credit! The Foundation of Modern Society37Ch. 2Debt in the Victorian Money Management Ethic74Pt. 2Getting the Goods: The Making of a Credit Revolution109Ch. 3Small-Loan Lending and the Rise of the Personal Finance Company111Ch. 4Hard Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling156Pt. 3Getting Credit: The Legitimization of Consumer Debt209Ch. 5From Consumptive Credit to Consumer Credit211Ch. 6Consumer Credit in the Great Depression262Epilogue291Notes305Index365

✦ Subjects

Geschichte;Konsumentenkredit;Verbraucherverhalten;USA

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