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Women in business, 1700-1850 / Nicola Phillips.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2006Description: xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 184383183X
  • 9781843831839
Other title:
  • Women in business, seventeen hundred -eighteen fifty
  • Women in business, 1700 to 1850
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4209410903 22
LOC classification:
  • HD6054.4.G7 P485 2006
Contents:
1. Introduction : the business of life or a life in business -- 2. Legal fictions vs. legal facts : common law, coverture and married women in business -- 3. A customary privilege? : common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader -- 4. Trading 'according to equity and good conscience' : businesswomen in Chancery -- 5. 'The friendship of the world' : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham -- 6. Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 -- 7. A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 -- 8. 'The Bonaparte of her day'? : gender, trade and nationalism -- 9. 'This publick method' : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London -- 10. 'A heavy bill to settle with humanity'? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 305.4209410903 PHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A397110B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-286) and index.

1. Introduction : the business of life or a life in business -- 2. Legal fictions vs. legal facts : common law, coverture and married women in business -- 3. A customary privilege? : common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader -- 4. Trading 'according to equity and good conscience' : businesswomen in Chancery -- 5. 'The friendship of the world' : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham -- 6. Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 -- 7. A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 -- 8. 'The Bonaparte of her day'? : gender, trade and nationalism -- 9. 'This publick method' : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London -- 10. 'A heavy bill to settle with humanity'? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking.

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