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To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities
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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, ...
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.
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- Creator
- Sara T. Damiano
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9781421440569, 1421440563, 9781421440552, 1421440555
- OCLC
- on1244742131
- 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