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The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation - Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Paperback): Chia... The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation - Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Paperback)
Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences. These experiences include: colonial "projecting" in the Dutch New Netherlands, trust networks in the early US securities market, female investors during the Financial Revolution, life insurance in nineteenth-century France, "bubbles" and trusts in 1920s Shanghai, government regulation of the pre-Revolutionary stock market and the checkered success of today's bit-coin technology. By discussing these diverse contexts together, this volume provides a pathbreaking reconsideration of market and business activities in light of both the techniques and the emotional vectors that infuse them.

The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation - Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Hardcover): Chia... The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation - Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Hardcover)
Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause
R3,881 Discovery Miles 38 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences. These experiences include: colonial "projecting" in the Dutch New Netherlands, trust networks in the early US securities market, female investors during the Financial Revolution, life insurance in nineteenth-century France, "bubbles" and trusts in 1920s Shanghai, government regulation of the pre-Revolutionary stock market and the checkered success of today's bit-coin technology. By discussing these diverse contexts together, this volume provides a pathbreaking reconsideration of market and business activities in light of both the techniques and the emotional vectors that infuse them.

The Cultural History of Money and Credit - A Global Perspective (Hardcover): Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause The Cultural History of Money and Credit - A Global Perspective (Hardcover)
Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause; Contributions by Enrico Beltramini, Bryna Goodman, …
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical change. In this collection, nine scholars present original research into the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a global perspective. Together with an introduction by the editors, chapters emphasize themes of creditworthiness and access to credit, the role of the state in the loan market, modernization, colonialism, and global connections between markets. The first section of the volume, "Creditworthiness and Credit Risks," examines microfinancial markets in South India and Sri Lanka, Brazil, and the United States, in which access to credit depended largely on reputation, while larger investors showed a strong interest in policing economic behavior and encouraging thrift among market participants. The second section, "The Loan Market and the State," concerns attempts by national governments to regulate the lending activities of merchants and banks for social ends, from the liberal regime of nineteenth-century Switzerland to the far more statist policies of post-revolutionary Mexico, and U.S. legislation that strove to eliminate discrimination in lending. The third section, "Money, Commercial Exchange, and Global Connections," focuses on colonial and semicolonial societies in the Philippines, China, and Zimbabwe, where currency reform and the development of organized financial markets engendered conflict over competing models of economic development, often pitting the colony against the metropole. This volume offers a cultural history by considering money and credit as social relations, and explores how such relations were constructed and articulated by contemporaries. Chapters employ a variety of methodologies, including analyses of popular literature and the viewpoints of experts and professionals, investigations of policy measures and emerging social practices, and interpretations of quantitative data.

Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age - Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (Hardcover): Anika Walke,... Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age - Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (Hardcover)
Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, Nicole Svobodny; Contributions by Anika Walke, Christopher J. Ward, …
R1,993 R1,667 Discovery Miles 16 670 Save R326 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the "other." From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age - Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (Paperback): Anika Walke,... Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age - Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia (Paperback)
Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, Nicole Svobodny; Contributions by Anika Walke, Christopher J. Ward, …
R1,003 R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Save R198 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the "other." From walkways to railroads to airports, the history of travel provides a context for considering the people and events that have shaped Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Russia in Motion - Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850 (Hardcover): John Randolph, Eugene M Avrutin Russia in Motion - Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850 (Hardcover)
John Randolph, Eugene M Avrutin; Contributions by Eugene M Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, …
R1,373 R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Save R155 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since its rapid imperial expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia's politics, society, and culture have exerted a profound influence on movement throughout Eurasia. The circulation of people, information, and things across Russian space transformed populations, restructured collective and individual identities, and created enduring legacies. This volume represents the latest discoveries of scholars attempting to rediscover this experience, and to understand its lasting meaning for today. These gathered essays tell a broad range of stories, involving a remarkable cross-section of historical actors: imperial visionaries, stage-coach entrepreneurs, religious pilgrims, tourists, disability activists and metropolitan police, among others. The book illuminates three major themes: the role of human mobility in Russian governance; the processes by which people decide where and how to move; and the political and cultural power of different kinds of movement. A strong contribution to our understanding of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, this volume offers new models of research for historians, sociologists, political scientists, and others who are seeking to integrate the study of human mobility into their work. Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova.

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