Jose R Torre

The Political Economy of Sentiment

Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820

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Produktbeschreibung

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's reconstruction of value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781851968855
• ISBN-10: 1851968857
• Artikelnr.: 43601372

Autorenporträt

Torre, Jose R

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Prometheus Unbound
Chapter 1 'Things Without Him': Locke and the Logic of Metallism
Chapter 2 Shaftesbury and Scottish Moral Sense Commercial Humanism: Inclinations Implanted in the Subject
Chapter 3 American Money and Political Economy, 1780-1828
Chapter 4 Banking and Money in Boston
Chapter 5 Likeness to God
Chapter 6 The Luxury of Pity
Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Beauty and the Imagination
conclusion Conclusion: Sense Subordinated to the Mind