Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
- 2 Maritime Communities
- 3 Five Investor Ports
- 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
- 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners
- 6 Managing Owners
- 7 Port Businesswomen
- 8 Warship Builders
- 9 Merchant Shipbuilders
- 10 Conclusion: ‘A Respectable and Desirable Thing’
- Appendices
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
- 2 Maritime Communities
- 3 Five Investor Ports
- 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
- 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners
- 6 Managing Owners
- 7 Port Businesswomen
- 8 Warship Builders
- 9 Merchant Shipbuilders
- 10 Conclusion: ‘A Respectable and Desirable Thing’
- Appendices
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009