Women's Concerns: Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by Jill Jepson

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women's businesses - from small local concerns to financial empires - offered women independence, supported their families, and supplied essential goods and services to their communities and the world. They also contributed to much-needed legal and social change and set the stage for the female entrepreneurs who would come later. All this was accomplished despite immense financial barriers, an inequitable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433104237
• ISBN13: 9781433104237
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"