Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century /

Far from the genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteen.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doe, Helen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Shipbuilding > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Businesswomen > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Construction navale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
TRANSPORTATION > General.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Businesswomen
Shipbuilding
Schiffbauindustrie
Unternehmerin
Scheepvaart.
Reders.
Vrouwen.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LUST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment; 2 Maritime Communities; 3 Five Investor Ports; 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters; 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners; 6 Managing Owners; 7 Port Businesswomen; 8 Warship Builders; 9 Merchant Shipbuilders; 10 Conclusion: 'A Respectable and Desirable Thing'; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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