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In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's workboarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcoholbut her customers, like her creditors, underscore her connections to an expansive commercial society. These connections are central to The Ties That Buy . Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor traces the lives of urban women in early America to reveal how they used the ties of residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culture at a time when the politics of the marketplace was gaining national significance. Covering the period 1750-1820, the book analyzes how women such as Stoneman used and were used by shifting forms of credit and cash in an economy transitioning between neighborly exchanges and investment-oriented transactions. In this world, commerce reached into every part of life. At the hearths of multifamily homes, renters, lodgers, and recent acquaintances

Author

Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812221596

Subjects

Business, Economics, History