Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

by Helen Doe

Far from the genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century and actively ran non feminine businesses such as shipbuilding. By setting the businesswomen firmly in the context of the industry, the book examines the business challenges from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843834723
• ISBN13: 9781843834724
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"