Debtor nation: the history of America in red ink

List of illustrations

Introduction to the history of debt

1: Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s

2: Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets

3: How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments, 1934-1938

4: War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices

5: Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity

6: Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access

7: Securing debt in an insecure world: credit cards and capital markets

Epilogue: Debt as choice, debt as structure

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

References

Index.