Merchant Princes and Charlatans or Makers of Money? : Decoding Icons of Nineteenth Century British and International Finance /

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who defr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sless, Henry (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Finance. History. Europe-History. Art-History. Financial History. European History. Art History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Financial context
Visual context
The merchant princes
The charlatans
Financial iconography
Gender
The other
The law
Dreams and the unconscious
Conclusion.