About this title: This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society and to the operation and development of commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It presents a rich and complicated picture of lower-middling life and female enterprise in three northern English towns: Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield. The stories told by a wide range of sources - including trade directories, newspaper advertisements, court records, correspondence, and diaries - demonstrate the very differing fortunes and levels of independence that individual businesswomen enjoyed. Yet, as a group, ...
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 216x138 mm. (208) this study of the experiences of lower middle-class women in northern towns during the industrial revolution challenges widely held views on women's social and economic roles in the late eighteenth and early ni*n*e*t*eenth centuries. hannah barker balances rigorous quantitative analysis of the available evidence with portraits of individual women and their lives. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
Description: Very Good. 0199299714 Hardcover; 2006, Oxford University Press, USA; 208 pages; "The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830, " by Hannah Barker. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
Description: Very Good. 0199299714 Hardcover; 2006, Oxford University Press, USA; 208 pages; "The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830, " by Hannah Barker. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780199299713ISBN:0199299714
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