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UNINA9910462341103321 |
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Titolo |
Female economic strategies in the modern world / / edited by Beatrice Moring |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-32058-1 |
1-315-65494-6 |
1-317-32059-X |
1-283-85040-0 |
1-78144-001-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perspectives in economic and social history ; ; number 22 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - History - Modern period, 1600- |
Women - Economic conditions |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published 2012 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--t.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-193) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Widows, Family and Poor relief in England from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century; 2. Survival Strategies of Poor Women in the two Localities in Guipuzcoa; 3. Women, Work and Survival Strategies in Urban Northen Europe; 4. Women, Households and Independence Under the Old English Poor Laws; 5. The Economic Strategies of Widows in Switzerland; 6. Mexico: Women and Poverty; 7. Gender and Migration in the Pyrenees in the Nineteenth Century; 8. Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Austria; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. |
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