Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. An Introduction to the History of Debt 1
5. Chapter One. Making Credit Modern 10
6. Chapter Two. Debt and Recovery 45
7. Chapter Three. How Commercial Bankers Discovered Consumer Credit 73
8. Chapter Four. War and Credit 98
9. Chapter Five. Postwar Consumer Credit 132
10. Chapter Six. Legitimating the Credit Infrastructure 173
11. Chapter Seven. Securing Debt in an Insecure World 220
12. Epilogue. Debt as Choice, Debt as Structure 281
13. Acknowledgments 289
14. Abbreviations 291
15. Notes 293
16. References 363
17. Index 365
18. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America 377