Overview
- Innovatively considers nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world
- Provides a unique and essential teaching resource for courses on women’s, gender, business, global, and nineteenth century history
- Assesses the experiences of women trading in Europe, Australia, the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and Asia
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
"This volume challenges those who see gender inequalities invariably defining and constraining the lives of women. But it also broadens the conversation about the degree to which business is a gender-blind institution, owned and managed by entrepreneurs whose gender identities shape and reflect economic and cultural change." – Mary A. Yeager, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles
This is the first book to consider nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world. The women in these pages, who made money and business decisions for themselves rather than as employees, ran a wide variety of enterprises, from micro-businesses in the ‘grey market’ to large factories with international reach. They included publicans and farmers, midwives and property developers, milliners and plumbers, pirates and shopkeepers.
Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective rejects the notion that nineteenth-century women were restricted to the home. Despite a variety of legal and structural restrictions, they found ways to make important but largely unrecognised contributions to economies around the world - many in business. Their impact on the economy and the economy’s impact on them challenge gender historians to think more about business and business historians to think more about gender and create a global history that is inclusive of multiple perspectives.
Chapter one of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.Reviews
“The editors aim to increase dialogue between historians across the geographical and linguistic divides. They call for the use of technology to facilitate interactions between historians, a lesson that could be applied to all disciplines. Furthermore, they stress the scope for further research and collaboration. This book expands scholarship, assembling case studies from across the world, and thereby encouraging debate and the potential for further international cooperation.” (Helen Leighton-Rose, Family &Community History, Vol. 24 (1), April, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jennifer Aston is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK.
Catherine Bishop is a historian with an Australian Research Council DECRA postdoctoral fellowship in the Centre for Workforce Futures at the Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: Jennifer Aston, Catherine Bishop
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if Applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33411-6Published: 30 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33414-7Published: 31 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33412-3Published: 29 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 480
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Entrepreneurship, Social History, Gender and Economics