TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damiano,Sara T.
TI  - To her credit: women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities 
T2  - Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
SN  - 9781421440569
AV  - HQ1438 .T644 2021
KW  - Women
KW  - New England
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Credit
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - Employment
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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