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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 like routine activities of everyday life? Genres of the Credit Economy addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Poovey, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money--in other words, participating in the modern financial system--come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? Genres of the Credit Economy addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were naturalized, Mary Poovey explores complex relationships among forms of writing that are not usually viewed together, from bills of exchange and bank checks.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 511 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226675213
0226675211
1281966231
9781281966230
9786611966232
6611966234