Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):859-861; doi:10.1093/es/khp046
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Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885
Susan Ingalls Lewis. Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. xx + 203 pp. ISBN 978-0-8142-0398-9, $44.95 (cloth)
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Susan Ingalls Lewis has written a thoughtful and at times wonderfully provocative book that establishes beyond doubt the visible and significant roles played by businesswomen in nineteenth-century Albany, New York. From three major sources—census, city directories, and R. G. Dun and Company manuscript credit reports–she has created a file of over two thousand businesswomen active at some point between 1830 and 1885. She employs a linked dataset of one thousand five hundred of these women active between 1875 and 1885 to explore the contours of female enterprise and the social and economic characteristics of those
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