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LEADER: 02125cam a22003374a 4500
001 2006296585
003 DLC
005 20070530084041.0
008 060526s2006 enka b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aHD6054.4.G7$bP48 2006
082 00 $a338.7082/0941$222
100 1 $aPhillips, Nicola$q(Nicola Jane)
245 10 $aWomen in business, 1700-1850 /$cNicola Phillips.
260 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ;$aRochester, N.Y., USA :$bBoydell Press,$c2006.
300 $axi, 299 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 272-286) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the business of life or a life in business -- Legal fictions vs. legal facts : common law, coverture and married women in business -- A customary privilege? : common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader -- Trading "according to equity and good conscience" : businesswomen in Chancery -- "The friendship of the world" : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham -- Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 -- A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 -- "The Bonaparte of her day"? : gender, trade and nationalism -- "This publick method" : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London -- "A heavy bill to settle with humanity"? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking -- Conclusion : "business is just life."
650 0 $aBusinesswomen$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBusinesswomen$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0609/2006296585.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f1t1-aa