Title To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano.

Publication Info.	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
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Series	Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
	Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Contents	Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "To the advantage of herself & the honorable support of her Family": Women and the Urban Credit Economy -- 2. "She Hath Often Requested the Sum": Credit Relations Outside of Court -- 3. "And Thereon She Sues": Debt Litigation, Lawyers, and Legal Practices -- 4. "I saw and heard": The Knowledge and Power of Witnesses -- 5. "Laboring under many difficulties and hardships": The Problem of Debt and Vocabularies of Grievance
	6. "According to your judgments": Redefining Financial Work in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources and Sampling for the Quantitative Analysis of Debt Cases -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary	The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit will be an eye-opening work for economic historians, legal historians, and anyone interested in the early history of New England.
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Subject	Women -- New England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 18th century.
	Women.
	New England.
	Economic conditions.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Credit -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
	Credit.
	Capitalism -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
	Capitalism.
	Finance, Personal -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
	Finance, Personal.
	Women -- Employment -- New England -- History -- 18th century.
	Women -- Employment.
	Women -- Economic conditions.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781421440569
	Print version: 9781421440552 1421440555 (DLC) 2020025877 (OCoLC)1161998659
ISBN	9781421440569 (electronic book)
	1421440563 (electronic book)
	9781421440552
	1421440555

Title To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano.

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