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]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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