Financing the American dream a cultural history of consumer credit / [electronic resource] :
Lendol Calder.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
- xv, 377 p. : ill.
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-364) and index.
pt. 1. Getting trusted : debt and credit before consumer credit -- pt. 2. Getting the goods : the making of a credit revolution -- pt. 3. Getting credit : the legitimization of consumer debt.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Consumer credit--History.--United States Consumption (Economics)--History.--United States Consumers--History.--United States