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  | | Genres of the Credit Economy(First Edition) Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain by Mary Poovey Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67533-6, ISBN: 0-226-67533-5 "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 representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual catego ..." |
 | | A History of the Modern Fact(1st Edition) Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society by Mary Poovey Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67526-8, ISBN: 0-226-67526-2 "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 in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 183 ..." |
 | | The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain(1st Edition) (Victorian Archives Series) by Mary Poovey Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515057-5, ISBN: 0-19-515057-0 "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. The documents represent a variety of per ..." |
 | | Making a Social Body(1st Edition) British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 by Mary Poovey Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67524-4, ISBN: 0-226-67524-6 "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 aggregate-a social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, ..." |
 | | Uneven Developments(1st Edition) The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Women in Culture and Society) by Mary Poovey, Catharine R. Stimpson Paperback, 289 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67530-5, ISBN: 0-226-67530-0 "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 th ..." |
 | | Finance in America(1st Edition) An Unfinished Story by Kevin R. Brine, Mary Poovey Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50218-2, ISBN: 0-226-50218-X "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 R. Brine, an industry veteran, and Mary Poovey, an acclaime ..." |
 | | A History of the Modern Fact(1st Edition) Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society by Mary Poovey Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67525-1, ISBN: 0-226-67525-4 "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 in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 183 ..." |
 | | Uneven Developments Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England by Mary Poovey Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1989 by Virago Press Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-1-85381-035-0, ISBN: 1-85381-035-5 "The author undertakes an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology." |
 | | Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought (Pickering Women's Classics) by Florence Nightingale, Mary Poovey Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 1991 by Pickering & Chatto ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-022-4, ISBN: 1-85196-022-8 "Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in nineteenth-century history of feminist thought. Full description" |
 | | Finance in America(1st Edition) An Unfinished Story by Mary Poovey, Kevin R. Brine Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50204-5, ISBN: 0-226-50204-X "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 R. Brine, an industry veteran, and Mary Poovey, an acclaime ..." |
 | | Uneven Developments The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Women in Culture and Society) by Mary Poovey Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67529-9, ISBN: 0-226-67529-7 "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." |
 | | The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (Women in Culture and Society) by Mary Poovey Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 1985 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67528-2, ISBN: 0-226-67528-9 ""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 accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting ..." |
 | | Florence Nightingale 'Cassandra' and 'Suggestions for Thought' (Women's Classics) by Mary Poovey, Florence Nightingale Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 1993 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5775-8, ISBN: 0-8147-5775-8 "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 bol ..." |
 | | Debt Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (21st Century Studies) by Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Richard D. Wolff, Elaine Lewinnek, Mary Poovey, Michael A. Gillespie, Joel Magnuson, Stephen Gardner, Julianne Lutz Warren, Genese Marie Sodikoff, Eleanor Courtemanche, Michael Tratner, Donald D. Hester, Kennan Ferguson, Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2013 by Indiana University Press - Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-00938-8, ISBN: 0-253-00938-3 "From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that ..." |
 | | Genres of the Credit Economy Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain by Mary Poovey Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67532-9, ISBN: 0-226-67532-7 "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 representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual catego ..." |
 | | Making a Social Body British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (Hardback) by Mary Poovey Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67523-7, ISBN: 0-226-67523-8 "Poovey illuminates the ways literary genres, such as the novel, and innovations in social thought, such as statistical thinking and anatomical realism, helped separate social concerns from the political and economic domains." |
 | | Florence Nightingale Cassandra and other sections from Suggestions for Thought (NYU Press Women's Classics) by Mary Poovey, Florence Nightingale, Alice Anderson Hardcover, 1 Pages, Published 1992 by New York University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5773-4, ISBN: 0-8147-5773-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Women in Culture and Society The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer : Ideology As Style in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen by Mary Poovey Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1984 by Univ.Chicago P. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67527-5, ISBN: 0-226-67527-0 "Book by Poovey Mary" |
 | | Finance in America An Unfinished Story by Kevin R. Brine, Mary Poovey 528 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50221-2, ISBN: 0-226-50221-X "In Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists, ed. Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett, 392–419. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. Colander, David C., and Harry Landreth. Introduction to The Coming of Keynesianism to America: Conversations with the Founders of Keynesian Economics, ed. David C. Colander and Harry H. Landreth, 1–38. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. Colm, Gerhard. “The Ideal Tax System.” Social ..." |
 | | Uneven Developments the Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England by Mary Poovey Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-07011-0, ISBN: 1-282-07011-8 |
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