Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters & the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925

by BARBRA MANN WALL

In Unlikely Entrepreneurs, Barbra Mann Wall looks at the development of religious hospitals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the entrepreneurial influence Catholic sisters held in this process. When immigrant nuns came to the United States in the late nineteenth century, they encountered a market economy that structured the way they developed their hospitals. Sisters enthusiastically engaged in the market as entrepreneurs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814209939
• ISBN13: 9780814209936
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"