The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England

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Henry S. Turner
Psychology Press, 2002 - 304 Seiten
The Culture of Capital brings together leading literary critics and historians to reassess one of the defining features of early modern England-the idea of "capital." The collection reevaluates the different aspects of the concept as it emerged amidst the profound economic, social, and technological changes typical of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
 

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Introduction
1
The Language of Property
17
Capital Formations
27
Fictions of the Early Modern English
51
Plotting Early Modernity
85
Of Cities and Territory
129
The Metropolis and the Revolution
139
The Pocket Books of Early Modern History
183
ΙΟ Walking Capitals
203
Of Culture and Its Currency
223
The Print of Goodness
231
Mathematics as a Social Formation
255
The Value of Culture and the Disavowal of Things
275
Contributors
293
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Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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