1. Discovering a Global Perspective -- 2. ‘Se mantiene de lavar’: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City -- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’ -- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s-1850s...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography -- Chapter 2: Women and their Businesses -- Chapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman? -- Chapter 4: The Social Network -- Chapter 5: Life After Death -- Conclusion.