Catherine Bishop

Broschiertes Buch

Minding Her Own Business

Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney

Beschreibung

There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but if you know where to look, you can find many traces of their presence as you wander the streets of Sydney. This book brings the stories of these entrepreneurial women to life, with fascinating details of their successes and failures, their determination and wilfulness, their achievements, their tragedies and the occasional juicy scandal. Until now we have imagined colonial women indoors – as wives, mothers, domestic servants or prostitutes. This book sets them firmly out in the open.

Autor

Catherine Bishop is a historian with a PhD in Australian history. Born in New Zealand, she lived in the UK before moving to Sydney nearly twenty years ago. Catherine has worked as a math teacher, bookseller, school assistant and is now a historian at Australian Catholic University and the University of Sydney.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781742234328
• ISBN-10: 1742234321
• Artikelnr.: 44005393