Damiano, Sara T.,  1986- <br/><br/>
To her credit :  women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / 
Sara T. Damiano. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421440569 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Economic conditions--History--New England--18th century.<br/>Credit--History--New England--18th century.<br/>Capitalism--History--New England--18th century.<br/>Finance, Personal--History--New England--18th century.<br/>Women--Employment--History--New England--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1438  / .T644 2021