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A Silent Revolution? explores how urban women managed wealth at a time when they were thought to have little independence - including economic - 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.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.

Women --- Women --- Women --- Women --- Marital property --- Women --- Women --- Women --- Women --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Biens communs --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Femmes --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions --- Employment --- History --- Employment --- History --- History. --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions économiques --- Travail --- Histoire --- Travail --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions économiques

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Collective histories and broad social change are informed by the ways in which personal lives unfold. This book examines individual experiences within such collective histories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- Immigrants --- Längsschnittuntersuchung. --- Migration, Internal --- Migration, Internal. --- Migration. --- Regionale Mobilität. --- History --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- 1800-1999. --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization