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Speculative endeavors : cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century / edited by Selina Foltinek, Karin Hoepker, and Katrin Horn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Managing knowledge and capital in the nineteenth century
- Part I Capital, reputation, and legal recognition
- Sometimes it is worse to be talked about: Epistemic surplus and social capital
- Rumor as speculative practice: Reports of uprisings of enslaved people in the nineteenth-century US South
- US immigrants, remittances, and the courts, 1904-1925
- Part II Commerce, print culture, and the circulation of knowledge
- Epistemic style and the "knowing unknown" of racial capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois's "Scorn"
- Black editorship and the economics of print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions
- "Interesting to Ladies": How foreign correspondents made gossip a profession
- Part III Pedagogies and practices of the home
- Raising capitalist citizens: Pecuniary pedagogies and belonging in the United States, 1820-1900
- Genteel performance, embodied knowledge, and the quest for status in US American parlors
- Speculative knowledge: Ellen Richards and science of the home, 1870-1911
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-8216-5
- 1-5261-8214-9
- OCLC:
- 1517397106
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