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Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America
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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 A...
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.
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- Creator
- Claire Priest
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- xi, 226 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691185651, 0691185654, 0691158762, 9780691158761
- OCLC
- on1223099146, on1228505064, on1193064561
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Property -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
- Property -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Credit -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
- Credit -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.