The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture – Hardcover-Fast Shipping

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J. Logemann (Editor)

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 Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 295Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 INPublication Date: July 17, 2012