To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities

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Title
"To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities"
Statement of Responsibility
Sara T. Damiano
Publisher
  • Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardcover

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Summary: "This is a study in the history of capitalism in the context of colonial New England. The author argues that colonial women's skilled labor undergirded the workings of financial networks and was instrumental in shaping the development of economic and legal systems. The author shows that the economies of the colonial port cities of Boston and Newport could not have functioned without women's labor and credit relationships"--Provided by publisher

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