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Synopsis
Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as within broader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historiographical contexts. He analyses women's probates, wills, land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages, investment in stocks and bonds, and self employment, revealing that women controlled wealth to an extent similar to that of most men and invested and managed wealth in increasingly similar, and in some cases more aggressive, ways.
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About the Author
One of Canada's leading business social scientists, Peter Baskerville is professor of history, University of Victoria, in-coming chair of Modern Western Canadian History, University of Alberta, and the author of several books, including, with Eric Sager,
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"The analysis and discussion of the issues are of the highest order and interest - A Silent Revolution? is a major contribution to the field of women and gender history." Francoise Noel, director of the Institute for Community Studies and Oral History, Nipissing University "Potentially, one of the most important books in the last two decades in Canadian social history." David Burley, history, University of Winnipeg
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- PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0773534709
- ISBN 13 9780773534704
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages384
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First. viii, 375pp., index, biblio., notes, tables, figures. "A Silent Revolution? explores how urban women managed wealth - at a time when they were thought to have little independence - and shows that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as within broader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historiographical contexts. He analyses women's probates, wills, land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages, investment in stocks and bonds, and self employment, revealing that women controlled wealth to an extent similar to that of most men and invested and managed wealth in increasingly similar, and in some cases more aggressive, ways." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 004394
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. As New; This book explores how urban women managed wealth in the period from 1860 to 1930 - a time when they were thought to have little independence - and shows that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. Traditional historiography has highlighted women's fight to acquire cultural and political rights during this period, but it is less well known that women acquired and exercised many economic rights as well. In doing so they put pressure on men to reconceptualize the notion of middle class and women's proper place. Seller Inventory # 007474
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