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Henry Sless ()
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Chapter Chapter 1 in Merchant Princes and Charlatans or Makers of Money?, 2022, pp 1-10 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The book chiefly analyses cartoons in comic and realistic periodicals using a unique dataset of over 500 images created from hard copy and digital sources. This is the visual story of people involved in financial activities in the nineteenth century, the heroes, the villains (the white-collar criminals), those who were just ‘makers of money’ as Vanity Fair called them, as well as the victims of financial fraud/collapses. It depicts both themselves as well as the financial events through which they lived. The key chapters cover the often- blurred distinction at the time between the Merchant Princes, the financial elite, and the Charlatans, the often- brilliant financiers who engaged in corrupt activities. Then follows a series of chapters which analyse the financial setting in which the individuals operated through a discussion on specific tropes which illustrate the zeitgeist of the period (Financial Iconography, Women, The Other, and Law). The coverage is international and comparative in scope, reflecting contrasting US and European visual responses.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86604-4_1

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