Shipwrecked or masculinity imperiled: mercantile representations of failure and the gendered self in eighteenth-century philadelphia

Journal of American History

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 51-80

  Ditz, Toby L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84963044724     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: 19452314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2080993     Document Type: Article

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