 | Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies Subjects: Consumer credit -- History; Women -- Finance Personal -- History; Women -- History -- Middle Ages 500–1500; Europe -- Economic Conditions -- 16th century; Developing countries -- Economic conditions; In this wide-ranging and provocative study, the author assesses the overall significance of women's work in medieval and early modern Europe, and in colonial and postcolonial societies. Jordan William Chester : William Chester Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. |
