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Product Description: How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing moneyâin other words, participating in the modern financial systemâcome 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...read more
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9780226675329 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing moneyâin other words, participating in the modern financial systemâcome to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife?
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9780226675336 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing moneyâin other words, participating in the modern financial systemâcome to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife?
Product Description: Featuring primary documents drawn from the Victorian era's business and periodical press, this anthology provides an introduction to the most important features of the financial system in nineteenth-century Britain. Topics covered include currency and credit instruments; the national debt and the stock exchange; banks and the banking system; and the money market, company law, and financial fraud...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195161021 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 5, 2002, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Featuring primary documents drawn from the Victorian era's business and periodical press, this anthology provides an introduction to the most important features of the financial system in nineteenth-century Britain.
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9780195150575 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 5, 2002, cover price $59.95
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9780226675251 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $75.00
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9780226675268 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1998, cover price $43.00
Product Description: With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received relatively little attention. In Making a Social Body, Mary Poovey examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregateâa social body...read more
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9780226675237 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1995, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received relatively little attention.
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9780226675244, titled "Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864" | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1995, cover price $30.00
Florence Nightingale (1820-1920) is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for health care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Though best known for her pioneering demonstration that disease rather than wounds killed most soldiers, she was also heavily allied to social reform movements and to feminist protest against the enforced idleness of middle-class women. This original edition provides bold new insights into Nightingale's beliefs and a new picture of the relationship between feminism and religion. Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth Among the Artisans of England (1860), which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in 19th-century history of feminist thought and is published here for the first time. Nightingale argues that work was the means by which every individual sought self-fulfillment and served God. She wrote influentially about the group most Victorians declared to be above work: unmarried, middle-class women.
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9780814757734 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Florence Nightingale (1820-1920) is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for health care founded on a clean environment and good nursing.
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9780814757758 | New York Univ Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.00
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 of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutionsâmedical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850s of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement.Drawing on a wide range of sourcesâparliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticityâPoovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories. (view table of contents)
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9780226675299 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse.
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9780226675305 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $38.00
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9780226675275 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $20.00
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9780226675282 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 15, 1985, cover price $32.00
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