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To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of PhiladelphiaDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421440569
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1438 .T644 2021
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Contents:
Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "To the advantage of herself & the honorable support of her Family": Women and the Urban Credit Economy -- 2. "She Hath Often Requested the Sum": Credit Relations Outside of Court -- 3. "And Thereon She Sues": Debt Litigation, Lawyers, and Legal Practices -- 4. "I saw and heard": The Knowledge and Power of Witnesses -- 5. "Laboring under many difficulties and hardships": The Problem of Debt and Vocabularies of Grievance
Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources and Sampling for the Quantitative Analysis of Debt Cases -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Subject: The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit will be an eye-opening work for economic historians, legal historians, and anyone interested in the early history of New England.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "To the advantage of herself & the honorable support of her Family": Women and the Urban Credit Economy -- 2. "She Hath Often Requested the Sum": Credit Relations Outside of Court -- 3. "And Thereon She Sues": Debt Litigation, Lawyers, and Legal Practices -- 4. "I saw and heard": The Knowledge and Power of Witnesses -- 5. "Laboring under many difficulties and hardships": The Problem of Debt and Vocabularies of Grievance

6. "According to your judgments": Redefining Financial Work in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources and Sampling for the Quantitative Analysis of Debt Cases -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit will be an eye-opening work for economic historians, legal historians, and anyone interested in the early history of New England.

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