Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 pages)
ISBN:
9781421440569
Serie:
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources and Sampling for the Quantitative Analysis of Debt Cases -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781421440552
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Damiano, Sara T., 1986 - To her credit Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781421440552
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Neuengland
;
Frau
;
Kredit
;
Informeller Finanzsektor
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
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