Women and Business since 1500 Invisible Presences in Europe and North America?
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Beatrice Craig is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches courses on women's history. Her main area of research is the socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts of the emergence of industrial capitalism on Atlantic societies. Her previous publications include Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres (with Robert Beachy and Alastair Owens, 2006).Introduction
PART I: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16TH TO 18TH CENTURY)
1.Context
2.Common People: the Crafts
3.Common People – Retailers, Street Sellers, Market Stall Holders, Shopkeepers
4.Interregional and International Trade and Banking
5.Printers and Manufacturers
6.The North American (British and French) Colonies
Conclusion to Part One
PART II: THE MODERN PERIOD (19TH TO 21ST CENTURY)
7.Context
8.More of the Same: Lower Middle Class Women in the English Speaking World
9.Women and Small Business in Continental Europe
10.Women and Large Businesses: Successors and Heiresses
11.Women and Large Businesses: Creators and Co-creators
12.Female Investors and Bankers – 17th to 19th Century
13.Post 1960 Entrepreneurship. A New (American) Female Frontier?
Conclusion to Part Two
General Conclusion.