This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives.

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German Historical Institute, USA

Jan Logemann

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JAN LOGEMANN Research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., USA, and director of the project 'Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930–1980.' His work focuses on modern consumer societies and includes the forthcoming book, Trams or Tailfins: Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States.

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Book Title: The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective
Book Subtitle: Business, Regulation, and Culture
Editors: Jan Logemann
Series Title: Worlds of Consumption
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137062079
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34105-0Published: 27 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34386-7Published: 27 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06207-9Published: 16 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2945-6010
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 295
Topics: US History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Asian History, European History, Cultural History

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

Lenders and Lending Practices

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Selling Televisions on Credit: The Rise of Consumer Loans in Postwar France

Moral or Modern Marketing? Sparkassen and Consumer Credit in West Germany

Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan

Borrowers and Credit Access

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The Business of Working-Class Credit: Subprime Markets in the United Kingdom since 1880

American Women’s Struggle to End Credit Discrimination in the Twentieth Century

Virtually Creditworthy: Privacy, the Right to Information, and Consumer Credit Reporting in West Germany, 1950–1985

State Regulation and Credit Policies

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Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France

French Consumer Credit Policy in the 1950s and 1960s: From Opposition to Control

From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State

Cultures of Credit

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Economic Agents and the Culture of Debt

Japan and the Western Model: An Economist’s View of Cultures of Household Finance

“Ahead a Good Deal”: Taking the Long View of Household Debt and Credit in American Life

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Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

Lenders and Lending Practices

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Borrowers and Credit Access

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State Regulation and Credit Policies

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Cultures of Credit

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