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The ties that buy : women and commerce in revolutionary America Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HC 104 .H37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Households--Economic aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Households.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- United States--Commerce--History--18th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 253 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
- Contents:
- Urban housefuls
- Work in the Atlantic service economy
- Family credit and shared debts
- Translating money
- Shopping networks and consumption as collaboration
- The republic of goods.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-242) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: The Cries of Philadelphia by Johnson and Warner, image of a match seller ("Matches!") and an image of a chimneysweep (HSP in LCP, Am 1810 Cri)
- ISBN:
- 9780812241440 (alk. paper)
- 0812241444 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 259715951
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