Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
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Publishing Details
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
By (Author) Claire Priest
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
12th April 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Property and real estate
Economic history
Colonialism and imperialism
Slavery and abolition of slavery
346.73073
Physical Properties
Hardback
248
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
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 colon
Author Bio
Claire Priest is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Twitter @priest_claire
