Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America / Claire Priest.
2021
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Author
Title
Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America / Claire Priest.
Imprint
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Description
1 online resource (xi, 226 pages).
Series
Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Formatted Contents Note
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
Property exemptions : commodifying land and slaves in colonial America
Managing risk in colonial America
The Stamp Act, independence and the founding
Summary
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JStor, viewed March 18, 2021)
Available in Other Form
Print version: Priest, Claire Credit Nation : Property Laws and Institutions in Early America Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2021
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Language
English
ISBN
9780691185651 (electronic book)
0691185654 (electronic book)
9780691158761
0691185654 (electronic book)
9780691158761
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