The ties that buy
Subtitle: women and commerce in revolutionary America
By: Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780812241440
Subjects: Households -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Economic conditions; United States -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Urban housefuls; title: Work in the Atlantic service economy; title: Family credit and shared debts; title: Translating money; title: Shopping networks and consumption as collaboration; title: The republic of goods.