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Book Title: Genres Of The Credit Economy: Mediating Value In Eighteenth-...
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Genres of the Credit Economy : Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Economic History, Finance / General, General, Money & Monetary Policy, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.2 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Business & Economics
Author: Mary Poovey
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Perfect
