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Finance in America
An Unfinished Story
Av Kevin R. Brine, Mary Poovey
Häftad, 2017
359 kr
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The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understanding finance itself. To understand finance, …
History of the Modern Fact
Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Av Mary Poovey
E-bok, 2009
1061 kr
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How did the fact become modernity''s most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact , ranging across an astonishing array of texts and …
Genres of the Credit Economy
Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av Mary Poovey
E-bok, 2008
720 kr
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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 likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of …
Making a Social Body
British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864
Av Mary Poovey
Inbunden, 1995
1229 kr
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This study examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate - a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during …
Making a Social Body
British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864
Av Mary Poovey
Häftad, 1995
297 kr
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This study examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregate - a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during …
History of the Modern Fact
Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Av Mary Poovey
Inbunden, 1998
701 kr
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Exploring such questions as "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?", this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It shows how the production …
History of the Modern Fact
Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Av Mary Poovey
Häftad, 1998
485 kr
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Exploring such questions as "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?", this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It shows how the production …
Proper Lady and the Woman Writer – Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen
Av Mary Poovey
Häftad, 1985
420 kr
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"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to …
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Av Mary Poovey
Häftad
382 kr
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Uneven Developments
The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Av Mary Poovey
E-bok, 2009
959 kr
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Mary Poovey''s The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, …
Genres of the Credit Economy
Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av Mary Poovey
Häftad, 2008
371 kr
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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? "Genres of the Credit Economy" addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and …
