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The measure of the market :Women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island, 1750--1820.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The measure of the market :
Reminder of title:	Women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island, 1750--1820.
Author:	Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen Louise.
Description:	373 p.
Notes:	Chair: Susan Juster.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-02, Section: A, page: 0623.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-02A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3079457
ISBN:	0496273353

The measure of the market :Women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island, 1750--1820.
Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen Louise.

The measure of the market :Women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island, 1750--1820. [electronic resource] - 373 p.

Chair: Susan Juster.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2003.

Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island were thriving port cities in the eighteenth century---heavily dependent on the slave trade, multiracial in population, and connected by multiple family and business relationships. Sustained by commerce, these urban centers saw the genesis of new types of commercial relationships between residents, as cash wages replaced indentures, renters outnumbered freeholders, and buying and selling overtook home production and barter. Rooted in the Atlantic world of trade, urban culture was commercial in ways that touched every facet of city-dwellers' lives, from the rooms they lived in to the buttons they bought to the way they understood personal relationships. Women's lives were no exception; in fact, women were quintessential market participants, with fluid occupational identities, cross-class social and economic connections, and a firm investment in cash and commercial goods for power and meaning.

ISBN: 0496273353Subjects--Topical Terms:

212533
History, United States.

The measure of the market :Women's economic lives in Charleston, South Carolina and Newport, Rhode Island, 1750--1820.
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520 # $a The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time of great change in the politics of commerce. Women's actions in the marketplace shaped these changes, in spite of power inequities, legal restrictions on women, and an emerging language of "domesticity" that promised middle-class and well-to-do families a feminine haven from the cruel calculations of the marketplace. Political discourse minimized the larger significance of female buying, selling, and laboring even as the economy depended on these activities, offering women an expanded public and even international context for their lives.
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