Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America / / Peter Knight

• Autore: Knight Peter <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2016]; ©[2016]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.0973/09034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: <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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading the Market
• ISBN: 1-4214-2061-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524690803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.