Women and Business since 1500

Beatrice Craig is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches courses on women's history. Her main area of research is the socio-economic and socio-cultural impacts of the emergence of industrial capitalism on Atlantic societies. Her previous publications include Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres (with Robert Beachy and Alastair Owens, 2006).

• IntroductionPART I: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (16TH TO 18TH CENTURY)1.Context2.Common People: the Crafts3.Common People – Retailers, Street Sellers, Market Stall Holders, Shopkeepers4.Interregional and International Trade and Banking5.Printers and Manufacturers6.The North American (British and French) ColoniesConclusion to Part OnePART II: THE MODERN PERIOD (19TH TO 21ST CENTURY)7.Context8.More of the Same: Lower Middle Class Women in the English Speaking World9.Women and Small Business in Continental Europe10.Women and Large Businesses: Successors and Heiresses11.Women and Large Businesses: Creators and Co-creators12.Female Investors and Bankers – 17th to 19th Century13.Post 1960 Entrepreneurship. A New (American) Female Frontier?Conclusion to Part TwoGeneral Conclusion.