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02988aam a2200397 i 4500 001 FE5B135A6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151027s2016 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015038895 020 $a 1137033223 020 $a 9781137033222 020 $a 1137033231 020 $a 9781137033239 035 $a (OCoLC)915495214 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OWS $d INU $d OCLCQ $d S3O $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $a e------ 100 1 $a Craig, B婉atrice, $e author. 245 10 $a Women and business since 1500 : $b invisible presences in Europe and North America? / $c B婉atrice Craig. 264 1 $a London : $b Macmillan Education, Palgrave, $c 2016. 300 $a vii, 216 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Gender and history series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-210) and index. 520 $a "This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Part I. The early modern world, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Context -- Common people : the crafts -- Retailers : street sellers, market stall holders and shopkeepers -- Interregional and international trade and banking -- Printers and manufacturers -- The North American (British and French) colonies -- Part II. The modern world, nineteenth to twenty-first centuries -- Context -- More of the same : lower middle-class women in the English speaking world -- Women and small businesses in continental Europe -- Women and large businesses : successors and heiresses -- Women and large businesses : founders and co-founders -- Female investors and bankers, seventeenth to twentieth centuries -- Post-1960s entrepreneurship : a new (American) female frontier? Conclusion : women in business: an enduring presence. 650 0 $a Businesswomen $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Women-owned business enterprises $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Women-owned business enterprises $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Self-employed women $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Self-employed women $z United States $x History. 830 0 $a Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605023541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FE5B135A6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search