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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.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226675336, 978-0226675336
      ISBN10: 0226675335
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "This is a splendid book, by far the most ambitious and wide-ranging of all the studies typed as 'new economic criticism.' Genres of the Credit Economy is a first-class book from one of the most important scholars of the period." - James Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"

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