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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Knight, Peter, 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9781421441108
Accès:Open Access

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