| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction: Finance, Capital, Culture; PART 1. A Prehistory of Victorian Investment; 1. "Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon":Finance Capital, the Atlantic, and Slavery; PART 2. Cultures of Investment; 2. Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure andSecrecy in the Culture of Investment; 3. The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses inVictorian Britain; 4. Limited Liability, Market Democracy, and the SocialOrganization of Production in Mid- Nineteenth- CenturyBritain. |
| Summary |
Victorian Investments explores the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture. Building on the special journal issue of Victorian Studies devoted to Victorian investments, this volume is the first to define an interdisciplinary field of study emerging in the space between Marxist critiques of capitalism and traditional histories of business and economics. The contributors demonstrate how phenomena such as the expansion of colonial and fore. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Investments -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Investments. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Finance -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Finance. |
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Social aspects. |
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Finance in literature.
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Finance in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Henry, Nancy, 1965-
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Schmitt, Cannon.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Victorian investments. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009 9780253220271 (DLC) 2008017202 (OCoLC)225852416 |
| ISBN |
0253003431 (electronic book) |
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9780253003430 (electronic book) |
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1282392484 |
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9781282392489 |
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9780253220271 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253220270 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612392481 |
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