| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 and Secrecy 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Investments -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Finance -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Finance in literature.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General.
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Finance in literature
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Investments
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henry, Nancy, 1965-
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Schmitt, Cannon.
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| LC no. |
2008017202 |
| ISBN |
0253003431 |
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9780253003430 |
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1282392484 |
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9781282392489 |
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9786612392481 |
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6612392487 |
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