ISBN:
9780821445471
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 230 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Series in Victorian studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nineteenth Century Studies Association (32. : 2011 : Albuquerque, NM) Culture & money in the nineteenth century
DDC:
306/.009034
Keywords:
1800-1900
;
Geld
;
Kulturgeschichte
;
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
;
Großbritannien
;
Amerika
;
Indien
;
Konferenzschrift 2011
;
Konferenzschrift 2011
;
Konferenzschrift 2011
;
Geld
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Amerika
;
Indien
;
England
;
Schottland
;
Wirtschaft
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics
Abstract:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abstracting Economics -- Part one: Broad Abstractions -- 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain -- 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s -- 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature -- Part two: Particular Abstractions -- 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling
Abstract:
5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination -- 6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar" -- 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain -- 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85 -- Contributors
Note:
"Grew out of the Thirty-Second Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference in 2011" (Acknowledgments)
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