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Autore: | Knight Peter <1968-> |
Titolo: | Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America / / Peter Knight |
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 |
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