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Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America / Claire Priest.

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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 America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped p...

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Main Author: Priest, Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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.
Credit > Law and legislation.
Property.
United States.
History.

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