Victorian investments: new perspectives on finance and culture
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press © 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 250 pages)
ISBN:0253003431
9780253003430

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