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UNINA9910524690803321 |
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Autore |
Knight Peter <1968-> |
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Titolo |
Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America / / Peter Knight |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2016] |
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©[2016] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Collana |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history |
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Soggetti |
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Finance in art |
Finance in literature |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History |
Journalism, Commercial - United States - History |
Finance - United States - History - 20th century |
Finance - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue. |
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<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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