{"product_id":"reading-the-market-genres-of-financial-capitalism-in-gilded-age-america-paperback","title":"Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Knight\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerica's fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans pay famously close attention to \"the market,\" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In \u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers' newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, \u003ci\u003eReading the Market \u003c\/i\u003eargues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance--and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritish Association for American Studies Book Prize Winner, 2016-17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans pay famously close attention to \"the market,\" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In \u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers' newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, \u003ci\u003eReading the Market \u003c\/i\u003eargues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance--and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffers a vivid picture and unique insight and perspective on the significance of the emerging new financial genre and the impact that it was having and would continue to have on the extraordinary American emotional and financial interest in Wall Street and the stock markets. Highly recommended.--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis intriguing book illuminates much about markets and, particularly, about the 'culture of the market' as financial capitalism began its will to power in America.--\u003ci\u003eCivil War Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e offers many evidentiary and analytical gems . . . A provocative and well-written study, this book also adds new dimension to our understanding of the literatures and popular culture of American finance. Knight's model literary analysis should provide ample material for students of American studies and cultural history, and could easily be incorporated into advanced undergraduate and graduate-level coursework.--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnight's contribution in \u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e to the discussion of America's financial past is powerful and persuasive. His larger work of personalizing its academic genealogy will have a lasting effect on the future scholarly reading of the market's past.--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcellently researched and intricately orchestrated. \u003ci\u003eReading the Market \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh and original contribution to the history of capitalism, and also to Gilded Age history generally.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurating a rich assemblage of commercial, political, historical, and literary materials, Knight offers a welcome interdisciplinary study that contributes to the social studies of finance, the new history of capitalism, financial print culture, and visual studies in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.--\u003ci\u003eBusiness History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago, author of \u003ci\u003eFreaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America\u003c\/i\u003e \"Business History Review\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritish Association for American Studies Book Prize Winner, 2016-17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans pay famously close attention to \"the market,\" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In \u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers' newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, \u003ci\u003eReading the Market \u003c\/i\u003eargues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance--and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Offers a vivid picture and unique insight and perspective on the significance of the emerging new financial genre and the impact that it was having and would continue to have on the extraordinary American emotional and financial interest in Wall Street and the stock markets. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This intriguing book illuminates much about markets and, particularly, about the 'culture of the market' as financial capitalism began its will to power in America.\"--\u003ci\u003eCivil War Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e offers many evidentiary and analytical gems . . . A provocative and well-written study, this book also adds new dimension to our understanding of the literatures and popular culture of American finance. Knight's model literary analysis should provide ample material for students of American studies and cultural history, and could easily be incorporated into advanced undergraduate and graduate-level coursework.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Knight's contribution in \u003ci\u003eReading the Market\u003c\/i\u003e to the discussion of America's financial past is powerful and persuasive. His larger work of personalizing its academic genealogy will have a lasting effect on the future scholarly reading of the market's past.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Excellently researched and intricately orchestrated. \u003ci\u003eReading the Market \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh and original contribution to the history of capitalism, and also to Gilded Age history generally.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Curating a rich assemblage of commercial, political, historical, and literary materials, Knight offers a welcome interdisciplinary study that contributes to the social studies of finance, the new history of capitalism, financial print culture, and visual studies in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.\"--\u003ci\u003eBusiness History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Knight\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of American studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kennedy Assassination\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eShow Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119230587015,"sku":"9781421425214","price":47.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/23f895e7e188ab4efe037f893399d87f.webp?v=1732539763","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/reading-the-market-genres-of-financial-capitalism-in-gilded-age-america-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}