Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap
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Main Author: Williams, Brett (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 2004
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Item Description:Biographical note: Brett Williams is Professor of Anthropology at American University. She is the author of Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C.
Main description: After September 11, 2001 ordinary Americans were urged to shop. Patriotic shopping would thwart terrorists, celebrate public life, and pull us back from the abyss of recession. We needed to be good citizen-consumers, but we knew that we could not really save America by shopping. Too many of us carried too much debt
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (160 S.)
ISBN:9780812200782
DOI:10.9783/9780812200782

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