| Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe Contributor(s): Dermineur, Elise M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503570526 ISBN-13: 9782503570525 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Series: Early European Research |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" (1.65 lbs) 364 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays compares and discusses women's participation and experiences in credit markets in early modern Europe, and highlights the characteristics, common mechanisms, similarities, discrepancies, and differences across various regions in Europe in different time periods, and at all levels of society. The essays focus on the role of women as creditors and debtors (a topic largely ignored in traditional historiography), but also and above all on the development of their roles across time. Were women able to enter the credit market, and if so, how and in what proportion? What was then the meaning of their involvement in this market? What did their involvement mean for the community and for their household? Was credit a vector of female emancipation and empowerment? What were the changes that occurred for them in the transition to capitalism? These essays offer a variety of perspectives on women's roles in the credit markets of early modern Europe in order to outline and answer these questions as well as analysing and exploring the nature of women, money, credit, and debt in a pre-industrial Europe. |