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Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
By Peter Knight
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By Peter Knight
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America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.
Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American Studies
Americans pay famously close attention to “the market,” obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, 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 examin...