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200 10$aExpressing America $ea critique of the global credit card society /$fGeorge Ritzer
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aThousand Oaks, Calif. ;$aLondon :$cPine Forge,$d1995.
215   $a1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages)
225 1 $aThe Pine Forge Press social science library
311 0 $a1-322-42098-X 
311 0 $a0-8039-9044-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-230) and index.
327   $aCover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues; Chapter 2 - Socio-History of the Credit Card: We Probably won't Recognize the Credit Card Field by the End of the Century; Chapter 3 - Credit Card Debt: Beware the Plastic Loan Shark; Chapter 4 - Credit Card Fraud: Screw You, Mac-I Got Mine; Chapter 5 - Secrecy, Privacy, and Credit Cards: Who isn't in Their Files?; Chapter 6 - Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization: All You Need is 42 Digits to Make One Long-Distance Phone Call; Chapter 7 - An American Express: The Culture that Conquered the World; Appendix; Endnotes; Index
330 8 $aIn this book the author explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit card is helping to transform much of the world.
410  0$aPine Forge Press social science library.
606   $aCredit cards$xSocial aspects$zUnited States
606   $aConsumption (Economics)$zUnited States
606   $aConsumer credit$zUnited States
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