The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America
(Part of the Early American Studies Series)
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In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work--boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol--but her customers, like...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812221591
ISBN13:9780812221596
Release Date:March 2011
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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