Speculative endeavors : cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century /
"Speculative endeavours contributes to an emerging field of scholarship that focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society. It sheds light on unofficial knowledges such as insider information, rumour, gossip, slander, emphasising...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: managing knowledge and capital in the nineteenth century / Karin Hoepker and Katrin Horn
- Part I: Capital, Reputation, and Legal Recognition
- Sometimes it is worse to be talked about: epistemic surplus and social capital / Karen Adkins
- Rumor as speculative practice: reports of uprisings of enslaved people in the nineteenth-century US South / Sebastian Jobs
- US immigrants, remittances, and the courts, 1904-1925 / Atiba Pertilla
- Part II: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Circulation of Knowledge
- Epistemic style and the "knowing unknown" of racial capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois's "Scorn" / Alexander Starre
- Black editorship and the economics of print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions / Andrew Erlandson
- "Interesting to ladies": how foreign correspondents made gossip a profession / Selina Foltinek and Katrin Horn
- Part III: Pedagogies and Practices of the Home
- Raising capitalist citizens: pecuniary pedagogies and belongings in the United States, 1820-1900 / Jaclyn Schultz
- Genteel performance, embodies knowledge, and the quest for status in US American parlors / Carola Bebermeier
- Speculative knowledge: Ellen Richards and science of the home, 1870-1911 / Serenity Sutherland.