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  • FINANCE IN AMERICA
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    FINANCE IN AMERICA
    KEVIN R. BRINE / MARY POOVEY
    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, however, we have to learn its history, and this book fills that need. Kevin...

    $698.95

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  • A HISTORY OF THE MODERN FACT
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    A HISTORY OF THE MODERN FACT
    MARY POOVEY
    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 ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping...

    $856.25

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  • UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS
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    UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS
    MARY POOVEY
    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, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form...

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  • GENRES OF THE CREDIT ECONOMY
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    GENRES OF THE CREDIT ECONOMY
    MARY POOVEY
    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 finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process b...

    $646.51

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