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 -- 5. A Constant Presence: The Businesswomen of Paris, 1810-1880 -- 6. The Gendered Nature of the Atlantic World Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry -- 7. On Their Own in a 'Man's World': Widows in Business in Colonial New Zealand and Australia -- 8. In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 9. The Business of Self-Endowment: Women Merchants, Wealth and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Luanda -- 10. More Than Just Penny Capitalists: The Range of Female Entrepreneurship in Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States Cities -- 11. Japanese Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Kyoto Businesses in Tokugawa Japan -- 12. Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911 -- 13. Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858-1914 -- 14. Mirror, Bridge or Stone? Female Owners of Firms in Spain During the Second Half of the Long Nineteenth Century -- 15. Gendered Innovation: Female Patent Activity and Market Development in Brazil, 1876-1906 -- 16. Not Such a 'Bad Speculation': Women, Cookbooks and Entrepreneurship in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia -- 17. Nineteenth-Century Female Entrepreneurship in Turkey -- 18. African Women Farmers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, 1875-1930: State Policies and Spiritual Vulnerabilities.