A Silent Revolution?
Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
Published on 21. July 2008
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-7735-3411-7 (ISBN)
Description
The increasing involvement of women in business and finance in turn-of-the-century urban Canada.
Reviews / Votes
"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." Franoise Nol, 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 WinnipegMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
65 tables 34 graphs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
746 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-3411-7 (9780773534117)
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02/2012
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07/2008
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Person
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,
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction; 1 Gender, Wealth, and Investment: Victoria and Hamilton, 18691931; 2 Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton, 18801930; 3 The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 18601911; 4 The fountain-head of all production: Land and Gender in Victoria and Hamilton, 18811901; 5 Stretching the Liberal State: Legal Regimes, Gender, and Mortgage Markets in Victoria and Hamilton, 18811921; 6 Gender, Credit, and Consumption: The Market for Chattels in Victoria, 18611902; 7 Canadian Urban Women in Business; 8 A Retail Dry Goods Merchant on My Own Separate Account: Gender and Family Enterprise in Urban Canada at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Conclusion