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A tale of two capitalisms : sacred economics in nineteenth-century Britain / Supritha Rajan

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015Description: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 354 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780472120949
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780472072552. | 9780472052554. | Erscheint auch als: Tale of two capitalisms. Druck-Ausgabe Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015DDC classification:
  • 330.12/2094109034 23
LOC classification:
  • HC255
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Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Economies of sacrifice -- Circular economies, sacred economies: the sacrifice of labor in John Ruskin and nineteenth-century political economy -- Rational agents, ritual actions -- The visible hand : models of communality and economic information systems -- The making of household gods: value, totems, and kinship in the nineteenth-century domestic novel and Victorian anthropology -- Household gods revisited in George Eliot and Anthony Trollope -- Magical technologies : forces of interest in Rudyard Kipling and Marshallian economics -- Electric Kim and the ludic rituals of empire -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its criticsPPN: PPN: 1916212603Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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