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Unexceptional women : female proprietors in mid-nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1830-1885
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- Creator
- Susan Ingalls Lewis
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xx, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814271629, 0814271626, 9780814203989, 0814203981
- OCLC
- ocn899261262, ocn247440660
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
- Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85 -- Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics -- Doing business : patterns and parameters -- Micronetworks and the family business economy -- Business or labor? : blurred boundaries in the careers of self-employed craftswomen -- "A small but safe business" : gendering success for nineteenth-century female proprietors -- "Doing the best business of any firm or man in the line" : female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Albany -- Illicit business : shady tradeswomen in Albany -- Conclusion : incorporating businesswomen into history