Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

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• Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin)
• Thursday 16 February 2017, 17:00-19:00
• History Faculty Room 12.

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In 17th-century France, even small-scale traders used ‘account books’ as instruments of everyday commercial activity. Wives usually kept accounts in small enterprises, producing perhaps the largest surviving corpus of non-elite women’s writing. The ‘books’ were freighted with legal, commercial, cultural and personal meanings. The gendering of financial record keeping is one of the ways in which women were integral in the intensification of market practices.

This talk is part of the Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars series.

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