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Stages of Capital : Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India /
In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection : 33
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. A Non-Negotiable Sovereignty?
- 1. The proper swindle: Commercial and Financial Legislation of the 1880s
- 2. Capitalism's idolatry: The Law of Charitable Trusts, Mortmain, and the Firm as Family, c. 1870-1920
- 3. For general public utility: Sovereignty, Philanthropy, and Market Governance, 1890-1920
- Part 2. Negotiating Subjects
- 4. hedging bets: Speculation, Gambling, and Market Ethics, 1890-1930.
- 5. economic agents, cultural subjects: Gender, the Joint Family, and the Making of Capitalist Subjects, 1900-1940
- Conclusion: Colonial Modernity and the Social Worlds of Capital
- Notes
- References
- Index