A Foot in the Past

A Foot in the Past
Author: Giorgio Riello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199292257

During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.

Women in Business, 1700-1850

Women in Business, 1700-1850
Author: Nicola Jane Phillips
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781843831839

A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.