Stages of capital: law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India

The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s -- Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as -- Family, c. 1870/1920 -- For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance -- 1890/1920 -- Hedging bets : specu...

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1. Verfasser: Birla, Ritu 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s -- Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as -- Family, c. 1870/1920 -- For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance -- 1890/1920 -- Hedging bets : speculation, gambling, and market ethics, 1890/1930 -- Economic agents, cultural subjects : gender, the joint family, and the making of -- Capitalist subjects, 1900/1940 -- Conclusion : colonial modernity and the social worlds of capital
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index
Beschreibung:xi, 346 p
ISBN:9780822392477
082239247X