Women in Business, 1700-1850

by Nicola Phillips

Orthodox opinion is that in the long' eighteenth century women, especially of the middle classes, had very little involvement with business affairs and enterprises, and that as a group they were more usually characterised by their domestic roles. This book takes issue with this view, arguing that the major factors which supposedly prevented women's economic activity in this period had much less impact than has previously been thought. It demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184383183X
• ISBN13: 9781843831839
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"