Credit Nation

Credit NationAuthor: Claire Priest ISBN: 9780691158761 Publisher: Princeton University Press Year first published: 12 Apr 2021 Pages: 248 Format: Hardback How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven 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 methods

perspectives that position Wolfson's major work within diverse contexts

When the Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan desert

Later in life

But we struggle to imagine a world in which people thrive and where we improve our democracy

'Counterfeit Magic'

and even an appearance by Bruce Springsteen

Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi

Ottoman architecture

such as Mecca

Arthur Lewis

This collection of "American letters" that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is part of the larger saga of America