Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England : Engagement in the Urban Economy
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 23637278
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 9783319308791
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides the first examination of female business owners outside London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It revises the established historiographical position by demonstrating the existence of female business owners in this period by using quantitative analysis of a database I constructed using 30,000 records drawn from trade directories of Birmingham and Leeds. This information is supplemented by substantial qualitative analysis of sources including maps, census returns, probate records, newspapers, advertisements,, photographs and records of male business owners, to challenge and reshape the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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