Credit Nation, 9780691158761
Hardcover
America’s foundation: Credit shaped laws, fueled slavery, and built capitalism.

Credit Nation

property laws and institutions in early america

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  • Hardcover

    248 pages

  • Release Date

    11 April 2021

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Summary

Credit Nation: Forging American Capitalism on Debt

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic.

In this major new history of ear…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691158761
ISBN-10:0691158762
Series:The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Author:Claire Priest
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:11 April 2021
Weight:666g
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“An informative and deeply researched book that explores how property law influenced the development of the English colonies and, ultimately, the United States.”—Aaron L. Chin, H-Early-America

About The Author

Claire Priest

Claire Priest is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Twitter @priest_claire

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