Credit nation : property laws and legal 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Priest, Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.