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Book SynopsisBeatrice Craig is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches courses on women's history. Her main area of research is the socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts of the emergence of industrial capitalism on Atlantic societies. Her previous publications include Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres (with Robert Beachy and Alastair Owens, 2006).
Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16TH TO 18TH CENTURY) 1.Context 2.Common People: the Crafts 3.Common People – Retailers, Street Sellers, Market Stall Holders, Shopkeepers 4.Interregional and International Trade and Banking 5.Printers and Manufacturers 6.The North American (British and French) Colonies Conclusion to Part One PART II: THE MODERN PERIOD (19TH TO 21ST CENTURY) 7.Context 8.More of the Same: Lower Middle Class Women in the English Speaking World 9.Women and Small Business in Continental Europe 10.Women and Large Businesses: Successors and Heiresses 11.Women and Large Businesses: Creators and Co-creators 12.Female Investors and Bankers – 17th to 19th Century 13.Post 1960 Entrepreneurship. A New (American) Female Frontier? Conclusion to Part Two General Conclusion.
