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Genres of the Credit Economy : Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain /

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Poovey, Mary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PREAMBLE. Mediating Genres
  • CHAPTER ONE. Mediating Value
  • CHAPTER TWO. Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money
  • INTERCHAPTER ONE. "The Paper Age"
  • CHAPTER THREE. Politicizing Paper Money
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Delimiting Literature,Defining Literary Value
  • INTERCHAPTER. TWO Textual Interpretation and Historical Description
  • CHAPTER SIX. Literary Appropriations
  • CODA
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX