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Author Turner, Henry.

Title The Culture of Capital : Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England.

Publication Info. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction The Culture of Capital; Part I Of Coin and Property; 2 The Language of Property in Early Modern Europe; 3 Capital Formations; 4 Fictions of the Early Modern English Probate Inventory; 5 Plotting Early Modernity; Part II Of Cities and Territory; 6 London, Change and Exchange; 7 The Metropolis and the Revolution Commercial, Urban, and Political Culture in Early Modern London; 8 Competing Ideologies of Commerce in Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Part II.
9 The Pocket Books of Early Modern History10 Walking Capitals Donne's First Satyre; Part III Of Culture and Its Currency; 11 A New Subject for Criticism; 12 The Print of Goodness; 13 Mathematics as a Social Formation Mapping the Early Modern Universal; 14 The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things; Contributors; Index.
Summary Leading literary critics and historians reassess one of the defining features of early modern England -the idea of ""capital."" The collection reevaluates the different aspects of the concept amidst the profound changes of the period.
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Subject Land tenure -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Land tenure.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Cities and towns -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Cities and towns.
England -- Civilization -- 16th century.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Turner, Henry. Culture of Capital : Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780415929240
ISBN 9781135205683 (electronic book)
113520568X (electronic book)