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

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives.

Author: J. Logemann
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/27/2012
Pages: 295
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230341050

About the Author
JAN LOGEMANN Research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., USA, and director of the project 'Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980.' His work focuses on modern consumer societies and includes the forthcoming book, Trams or Tailfins: Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States.