Credit Nation : Property Laws and Institutions in Early America /
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 p...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foundations of property and credit
- Property exemptions : commodifying land and slaves in colonial America
- Managing risk in colonial America
- The Stamp Act, independence and the founding.