Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Mary Poovey

Book Overview

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675335
• ISBN13: 9780226675336
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"