{"title":"Claire Priest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaire Priest\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful works that delve into the foundations and implications of credit systems, exploring how financial frameworks shape society. Her writing is both accessible and thought-provoking, suitable for readers interested in the intersection of economics, law, and social policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is ideal for those seeking a deeper understanding of how credit functions within modern economies, presented with clarity and critical analysis. \u003cem\u003eCredit Nation\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies her ability to engage with complex topics in an informative and compelling way.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"credit-nation-by-claire-priest-9780691158761","title":"Credit Nation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritising access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. \u003cem\u003eCredit Nation\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance. They enacted laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePriest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fuelled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCredit Nation\u003c\/em\u003e presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritised from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470357446892,"sku":"9780691158761","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691158761-credit-nation.jpg?v=1775217164"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/claire-priest.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}