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21%OFFLendol Calder - Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit - 9780691074559 - V9780691074559
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Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit

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Description for Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit paperback. Presents the social and cultural history of the rise of consumer credit in America. This book focuses on the years between 1890 and 1940, when the legal, institutional, and moral bases of consumer credit were established. It challenges the idea that consumer credit has eroded traditional values. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 599.
Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism. Or so we commonly believe. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Lendol Calder shows that this conception of the past is in fact a myth. Calder presents the first book-length social and cultural history of the rise of consumer credit in America. He focuses ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691074559
SKU
V9780691074559
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About Lendol Calder
Lendol Calder is Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College. Rock Island, Illnois.

Reviews for Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999 "Americans feel ashamed about so-called consumption debt, writes Mr. Calder in prose that's as clear as a bell, because they're psychologically frozen in a 100-year-old mindset... Mr. Calder's argument is so deliciously seditious that you have to wonder: What's wrong with this picture? ... Mr. Calder's sections on pawnbrokers, door-to-door peddlers and ... Read more

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