Calder, Lendol Glen.

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


Electronic books.

HG3756.U54 / C35 1999

332.7/0973