The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a Global History of Credit in Modern Consumer Societies

Chapter 2 Selling Televisions on Credit: The Rise of Consumer Loans in Postwar France

Chapter 3 Moral or Modern Marketing? Sparkassen and Consumer Credit in West Germany

Chapter 4 Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan

Chapter 5 The Business of Working-Class Credit: Subprime Markets in the United Kingdom since 1880

Chapter 6 American Women’s Struggle to End Credit Discrimination in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 7 Virtually Creditworthy: Privacy, the Right to Information, and Consumer Credit Reporting in West Germany, 1950–1985

Chapter 8 Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France

Chapter 9 French Consumer Credit Policy in the 1950s and 1960s: From Opposition to Control

Chapter 10 From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State

Chapter 11 Economic Agents and the Culture of Debt

Chapter 13 “Ahead a Good Deal”: Taking the Long View of Household Debt and Credit in American Life