Sara T. Damiano, To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities
In To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities, Sara T. Damiano’s meticulously sourced first book, she effectively argues that “from 1730 to the [American] Revolution, white urban women’s financial and legal work was an essential component of New England’s po...
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| Summary: | In To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities, Sara T. Damiano’s meticulously sourced first book, she effectively argues that “from 1730 to the [American] Revolution, white urban women’s financial and legal work was an essential component of New England’s political economy” (3). Taking examples from the court records of Newport County and Suffolk County (to which the colonial ports of Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts belonged), Damiano... |
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