Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Mary Poovey (Author), Mary Poovey (Author)

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  2008

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  How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? This title addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.