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• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 October 2012

Until the nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged

• Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
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• Release Date : 05 April 2022

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2017

Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 December 2014

This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 September 2017

How did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2013

A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 49,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2012

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 June 2009

Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success,

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 11 September 2012

Erroneously states "1st Touchstone hardcover edition" in paperback copy.

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 August 2016

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the