Chapter 1 Discovering a Global Perspective

Chapter 2 ‘Se Mantiene de Lavar’: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City

Chapter 3 Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’

Chapter 4 A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s–1850s

Chapter 5 A Constant Presence: The Businesswomen of Paris, 1810–1880

Chapter 6 The Gendered Nature of Atlantic World Marketplaces: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry

Chapter 7 On Their Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial Australia and New Zealand

Chapter 8 In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women Among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Chapter 9 The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants, Wealth and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Luanda

Chapter 10 More Than Just Penny Capitalists: The Range of Female Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century US Cities

Chapter 11 Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in Tokugawa Japan

Chapter 12 Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911

Chapter 13 Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858–1914

Chapter 14 Mirror, Bridge or Stone? Female Owners of Firms in Spain During the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 16 Not Such a ‘Bad Speculation’: Women, Cookbooks and Entrepreneurship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia

Chapter 17 Nineteenth-Century Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey

Chapter 18 African Women Farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1875–1930: State Policies and Spiritual Vulnerabilities

Chapter 19 Conclusion: Expanding the Horizon