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

Author/creator Flandreau, Marc
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Descriptionxix, 421 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015048927
ISBN9780226360300 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226360447 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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