Introduction
The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
Maritime Communities
Five Investor Ports
Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
Active and Passive Female Shipowners
Managing Owners
Port Businesswomen
Warship Builders
Merchant Shipbuilders
Conclusion: 'A Respectable and Desirable Thing'
A thoroughly researched, thoughtful and stimulating analysis of an
important theme in maritime history. It fill significant gaps in
the historiography of maritime women and enhances our understanding
of the role of women in the maritime world during this period.
*NORTHERN MARINER*
[A] fabulously detailed and meticulously researched book [which]
will be of interest to researchers of business, maritime or gender
history and to the general reader who is interested to learn the
unexpected about our country's trading heyday.
*WOMEN'S HISTORY MAGAZINE*
This well researched book [...] goes far to demonstrate that in the
maritime field of entrepreneurship was not the sole prerogative of
men. Doe's study encompasses much and will be indispensable reading
for historians with interests of many kinds.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY*
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