Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
 Discovering a Global Perspective  (Jennifer Aston, Catherine Bishop)....Pages 1-31
 ‘Se Mantiene de Lavar’: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City  (Marie Francois)....Pages 33-55
 Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’  (Grietjie Verhoef)....Pages 57-83
 A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s–1850s  (Galina Ulianova)....Pages 85-112
 A Constant Presence: The Businesswomen of Paris, 1810–1880  (Béatrice Craig)....Pages 113-136
 The Gendered Nature of Atlantic World Marketplaces: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry  (Alisha M. Cromwell)....Pages 137-168
 On Their Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial Australia and New Zealand  (Catherine Bishop)....Pages 169-193
 In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women Among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century  (C. Nathan Kwan)....Pages 195-218
 The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants, Wealth and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Luanda  (Vanessa S. Oliveira)....Pages 219-242
 More Than Just Penny Capitalists: The Range of Female Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century US Cities  (Susan Ingalls Lewis)....Pages 243-265
 Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in Tokugawa Japan  (Mary Louise Nagata)....Pages 267-288
 Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911  (Carry van Lieshout, Harry Smith, Robert J. Bennett)....Pages 289-314
 Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858–1914  (Melanie Buddle)....Pages 315-336
 Mirror, Bridge or Stone? Female Owners of Firms in Spain During the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century  (Carmen María Hernández-Nicolás, Susana Martínez-Rodríguez)....Pages 337-360
 Gendered Innovation: Female Patent Activity and Market Development in Brazil, 1876–1906  (Kari Zimmerman)....Pages 361-381
 Not Such a ‘Bad Speculation’: Women, Cookbooks and Entrepreneurship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia  (Blake Singley)....Pages 383-404
 Nineteenth-Century Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey  (Seven Ağır)....Pages 405-432
 African Women Farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1875–1930: State Policies and Spiritual Vulnerabilities  (Sean Redding)....Pages 433-453
 Conclusion: Expanding the Horizon  (Jennifer Aston, Catherine Bishop)....Pages 455-462
Back Matter ....Pages 463-480