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To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities /
The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit will be an eye-opening work for economic historians, legal historians, and anyone interested in the early history of New England.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "To the advantage of herself & the honorable support of her Family": Women and the Urban Credit Economy
- 2. "She Hath Often Requested the Sum": Credit Relations Outside of Court
- 3. "And Thereon She Sues": Debt Litigation, Lawyers, and Legal Practices
- 4. "I saw and heard": The Knowledge and Power of Witnesses
- 5. "Laboring under many difficulties and hardships": The Problem of Debt and Vocabularies of Grievance
- 6. "According to your judgments": Redefining Financial Work in the Late Eighteenth Century