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Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science / Marc Flandreau.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Flandreau, Marc, author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Anthropological Society of London--History--19th century.
Anthropological Society of London.
Stock Exchange (London, England)--History--19th century.
Stock Exchange (London, England).
Anthropology--England--History--19th century.
Anthropology.
Learned institutions and societies--Corrupt practices--England--London--History--19th century.
Learned institutions and societies.
Stock exchanges--Corrupt practices--England--London--History--19th century.
Stock exchanges.
Stock exchanges--Corrupt practices.
History.
England--London.
England.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction: the stock exchange modality
Writing about the margin
Rise of the cannibals
Anthropologists without qualities
The ogre of foreign loans
The learned society in the foreign debt food chain
Acts of speculation
Wanderlust
Salt-water anthropology
The violence of science
The man who ate the cannibals
Subject races
Conclusion: catharsis.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780226360584
022636058X
Publisher Number:
99976704117
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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