Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York

by Deborah Rosen

Book Overview

In Courts and Commerce, Deborah A. Rosen intertwines economic history, legal history, and the history of gender. Relying on extensive analysis of probate inventories, tax lists, court records, letter books, petitions to the governor, and other documents from the eighteenth century--some never before studied--Rosen describes the expansion of the market economy in colonial New York and the way in which the law provided opportunities for eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814207375
• ISBN13: 9780814207376
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"