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Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science
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Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science / Marc Flandreau.
ISBN
9780226360300 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226360447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226360300
9780226360584 (e-book)
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (442 pages)
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Print version: Flandreau, Marc. Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2024
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.
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