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Autore |
Bivona Daniel |
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Culture and money in the nineteenth century : abstracting economics / / edited by Daniel Bivona & Marlene Tromp |
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Ohio University Press, 2016 |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Collana |
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Series in Victorian Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture - 19th century |
Money - Social aspects |
Anthologies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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