Jennifer Aston is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK. Catherine Bishop is a historian with an Australian Research Council DECRA postdoctoral fellowship in the Centre for Workforce Futures at the Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

• 1. Discovering a Global Perspective.- 2. ‘Se mantiene de lavar’: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City.- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’.- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s-1850s.- 5. A Constant Presence: The Businesswomen of Paris, 1810-1880.- 6. The Gendered Nature of the Atlantic World Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry.- 7. On Their Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial New Zealand and Australia.- 8. In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.- 9. The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants, Wealth and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Luanda.- 10. More Than Just Penny Capitalists: The Range of Female Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States Cities.- 11. Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in Tokugawa Japan.- 12. Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911 .- 13. Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858-1914.- 14. Mirror, Bridge or Stone? Female Owners of Firms in Spain During the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century.- 15. Gendered Innovation: Female Patent Activity and Market Development in Brazil, 1876-1906.- 16. Not Such a ‘Bad Speculation’: Women, Cookbooks and Entrepreneurship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia.- 17. Nineteenth-Century Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey.- 18. African Women Farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1875-1930: State Policies and Spiritual Vulnerabilities.

“The editors aim to increase dialogue between historians across the geographical and linguistic divides. They call for the use of technology to facilitate interactions between historians, a lesson that could be applied to all disciplines. Furthermore, they stress the scope for further research and collaboration. This book expands scholarship, assembling case studies from across the world, and thereby encouraging debate and the potential for further international cooperation.” (Helen Leighton-Rose, Family &Community History, Vol. 24 (1), April, 2021)