To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities

by Sara T Damiano and Sara T. Damiano

A transformative look at colonial women's pivotal roles as lenders and debtors in shaping the economic and legal systems of Newport and Boston.

Winner of the Berkshire Women Historians Book Prize by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

In colonial Boston and Newport, personal credit relationships were a cornerstone of economic networks. During the eighteenth century, the pace of market exchange quickened and debt cases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421440555
• ISBN13: 9781421440552
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"