Female entrepreneurs in the long nineteenth century : a global perspective / Jennifer Aston, Catherine Bishop, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aston, Jennifer, editor.

Bishop, Catherine, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Palgrave studies in economic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businesswomen--History--19th century.

Businesswomen.

Women-owned business enterprises--History--19th century.

Women-owned business enterprises.

Gender identity--History--19th century.

Gender identity.

Entrepreneurship--History--19th century.

Entrepreneurship.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Discovering a Global Perspective

2. 'Se mantiene de lavar: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City

3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial 'South Africa

4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s-1850s

5. A Constant Presence: The Businesswomen of Paris, 1810-1880

6. The Gendered Nature of the Atlantic World Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry

7. On Their Own in a 'Mans World: Widows in Business in Colonial New Zealand and Australia

8. In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

9. The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants, Wealth and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Luanda

10. More Than Just Penny Capitalists: The Range of Female Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States Cities

11. Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in Tokugawa Japan

12. Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911

13. Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858-1914

14. Mirror, Bridge or Stone? Female Owners of Firms in Spain During the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century

15. Gendered Innovation: Female Patent Activity and Market Development in Brazil, 1876-1906

16. Not Such a 'Bad Speculation: Women, Cookbooks and Entrepreneurship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia

17. Nineteenth-Century Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey

18. African Women Farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1875-1930: State Policies and Spiritual Vulnerabilities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783030334123

3030334120

Publisher Number:

40030099306

10.1007/978-3-030-33

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Restricted for use by site license.