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Reading the market : genres of financial capitalism in gilded age America / Peter Knight.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New studies in American intellectual and cultural historyPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421420615
  • 1421420619
  • 1421420619
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading the market.DDC classification:
  • 332.0973/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • HG181 .K63 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue.
Summary: Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market, "" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, 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. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue.

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Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market, "" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, 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. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a.

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