Fictions of state : culture and credit in Britain, 1694-1994 /
In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of ""public credit, "" from the 1694 founding of the Bank of England to the present.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Fictions of State; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Debt, Fetishism, and Empire: A Postmodern Preamble; 2 The Assets of Lilliput (1694-1763); 3 Upon Daedalian Wings (1750-1832); 4 Banking on Novels (1800-1914); 5 Consuming Modernisms, Phallic Mothers (1900-1945); 6 Postindustrial, Postcolonial, Postmodern: ""Anarchy in the U.K"" (1945-1994); Works Cited; Index