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Author Flandreau, Marc, author.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
2016

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Description 1 online resource (442 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Anthropological Society of London -- History -- 19th century.
Stock Exchange (London, England) -- History -- 19th century.
Anthropology -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Learned institutions and societies -- Corrupt practices -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Stock exchanges -- Corrupt practices -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Flandreau, Marc. Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] 9780226360300
ISBN 9780226360300 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226360447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226360300
9780226360584 (e-book)

 
    
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