Reading the Market Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
<P>Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market,"" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In <I>Reading the Market</I>, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculia...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2016
[2016] |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434181006719 |
| Summary: | <P>Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market,"" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In <I>Reading the Market</I>, 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.</P><P>Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the st |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421420615 |
