Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on June 21, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm057
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Robert Beachy, Béatrice Craig, and Alastair Owens, eds. Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres
Robert Beachy, Béatrice Craig, and Alastair Owens, eds. Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006. xii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-184520-184-5, £55/$99.95 (cloth); 978-184520-185-2, £17.99/$29.95 (paper)
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This volume consolidates a session at the European Social Science History Conference in 2002. It comprises case studies of women's activities in various sectors of the European economy, from financial investment to varied business and entrepreneurial roles, from women artisans to women in the more traditional shop-keeping and retail trades and the time-honored, domestic and prostitution services. Their scope covers a variety of countries, including Germany, England, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, and
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