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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Autor principal: Poovey, Mary (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31507633*spi
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; PREAMBLE: Mediating Genres; ONE: Mediating Value; TWO: Generic Differentiation and the Naturalization of Money; INTERCHAPTER ONE: "The Paper Age"; THREE: Politicizing Paper Money; FOUR: Professional Political Economy and Its Popularizers; FIVE: Delimiting Literature, Defining Literary Value; INTERCHAPTER TWO: Textual Interpretation and Historical Description; SIX: Literary Appropriations; CODA; Notes; Bibliography; Index.