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The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Poovey, Mary

Paperback

Series: Victorian Archives, Book 1

Investing & FinanceLiterary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 0195150570
ISBN13: 9780195150575
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 5 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.52
Language: English
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 perspectives, including working-class radicals' complaints about the burden the national debt imposed on the poor, Indian economists' warnings about how debt was impoverishing India, political economists' celebrations of magic capital, and satirists' exposures of the frauds perpetrated by nefarious swindlers and company promoters. Most of the selections are reproduced in their entirety so that readers can see how closely financial matters were intertwined with the politics, ethics, and literary concerns of the period. An introduction by the editor and a chronology of the British financial system help place the materials in their historical context.

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