Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics /
edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp.
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (239 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Abstracting Economics; Part one: Broad Abstractions; 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain; 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s; 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature; Part two: Particular Abstractions; 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling. - 5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar"; 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain; 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85; Contributors. - Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics.
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ISBN | 0-8214-4547-2
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