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To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano

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Damiano, Sara T., 1986-
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
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©2021
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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
Summary
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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9781421440569 (electronic book)
1421440563 (electronic book)
9781421440552
1421440555
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