Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

List of contents

Introduction
The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
Maritime Communities
Five Investor Ports
Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
Active and Passive Female Shipowners
Managing Owners
Port Businesswomen
Warship Builders
Merchant Shipbuilders
Conclusion: 'A Respectable and Desirable Thing'

Summary

An examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Doe
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2009
• EAN: 9781843834724
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-472-4
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous