Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America / / Peter Knight.
<P>Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market,"" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In <I>Reading the Market</I>, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, [2016] ©[2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | <P>Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market,"" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In <I>Reading the Market</I>, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.</P><P>Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the st |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1421420619 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Peter Knight. |