1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460426403321

Autore

Freeman Minnie Aodla

Titolo

Life among the Qallunaat / / Mini Aodla Freeman ; edited and with an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rack, with Norma Dunning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manitoba, Canada : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-88755-492-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

First Voices, First Texts ; ; 3

Disciplina

971.004/971

Soggetti

Inuit - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This reissue includes revisions based on the original typescript, and an interview with the author.

"Life Among the Qualunaat was first published in 1978."-- P. [4] of cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

"One Day, Somebody is Going to Forget" A Conversation with Mini Aodla Freeman -- Life Among the Qallunaat.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458448703321

Autore

Hyman Louis <1977->

Titolo

Debtor nation [[electronic resource] ] : the history of America in red ink / / Louis Hyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-282-97644-3

9786612976445

1-4008-3840-1

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Disciplina

332.70973

Soggetti

Consumer credit - United States - History - 20th century

Debt - United States - History - 20th century

Loans, Personal - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions 20th century

United States Economic policy 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making credit modern: the origins of the debt infrastructure in the 1920s -- Debt and recovery: New Deal housing policy and the making of national mortgage markets -- How commercial bankers discovered consumer credit: the Federal Housing Administration and personal loan departments -- War and credit: government regulation and changing credit practices -- Postwar consumer credit: borrowing for prosperity -- Legitimating the credit infrastructure: race, gender and credit access -- Securing debt in an insecure world -- Epilogue: debt as choice, debt as structure.

Sommario/riassunto

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen? The first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, Debtor Nation traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its



transformation from fringe to mainstream--thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition. How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Why was all consumer credit, not just mortgages, tax deductible until 1986? Who invented the credit card? Examining the intersection of government and business in everyday life, Louis Hyman takes the reader behind the scenes of the institutions that made modern lending possible: the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of multinationals, and the back rooms of loan sharks. America's newfound indebtedness resulted not from a culture in decline, but from changes in the larger structure of American capitalism that were created, in part, by the choices of the powerful--choices that made lending money to facilitate consumption more profitable than lending to invest in expanded production. From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending, Debtor Nation presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140141403321

Autore

Sylvie Triaire Marie Blaise, Marie-Ève Thérenty (dir.)

Titolo

L'interview d'écrivain : figures bibliques d'autorité

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2004

[Place of publication not identified], : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2004

ISBN

2-36781-059-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 pages)

Collana

Collection des Littératures. Série Le Centaure ; ; 9/10

Soggetti

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

French Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Sommario/riassunto

Il s’agit dans ce numéro 10 de Lieux Littéraires/La Revue de décrire et analyser le sens des représentations bibliques dans la littérature du XIXe siècle, et le rôle qu’elles jouent dans la structuration de l’autorité et dans les mutations qui au long du siècle en affectent les formes et les modalités.  Au temps de Renan et de Michelet, la Bible intègre le champ des mythologies antiques et entre dans l’histoire de l’humanité comme un de ses livres. La figure biblique se fait philosophique ou politique (Jésus, Job…), en même temps qu’objet non plus de la seule représentation mais d’une reconfiguration littéraire et critique. Dans le même mouvement, le texte sacré, tombant en quelque sorte dans le domaine public – ou laïc – devient le garant de la création littéraire. S’opère ainsi durant le siècle des révolutions un retournement ou du moins une bifurcation du rapport entre littérature et religion : de matrice (de figures, valeurs), la religion devient débitrice de cette nouvelle autorité figurale qu’est la littérature.