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Author Damiano, Sara T., 1986- author.

Title To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Contents 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
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2021)
Subject Women -- New England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 18th century
Credit -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Capitalism -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Finance, Personal -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Women -- Employment -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Women -- Employment
Women -- Economic conditions
Finance, Personal
Credit
Capitalism
New England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421440569
1421440563