Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America /

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Americans pay famously close attention to "the market", obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Peter, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Wirtschaftspublizistik
Kapitalismus
Finanzierung
Journalism, Commercial.
Finance in literature.
Finance in art.
Finance.
Capitalism and literature.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Finances dans l'art.
Capitalisme et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Journalisme economique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Capitalism and literature > United States > History.
Journalism, Commercial > United States > History.
Finance > United States > History > 20th century.
Finance > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Americans pay famously close attention to "the market", obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9781421441108
Access:Open Access

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