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WorkCookie - A SEBOC Podcast
Ep. 211 - Managing from Afar: Leadership Practices for Remote Managers

WorkCookie - A SEBOC Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 67:39


Gain valuable insights and strategies to effectively balance flexibility with accountability in a remote work environment. Whether you're a remote worker or managing a remote team, this episode offers essential guidance for maintaining productivity and trust.  In this Episode: LindaAnn Rogers, Tom Bradshaw, Dr. Matthew Lampe, Dr. Martha Grajdek, Emi Barresi, Lee Crowson, Nic Krueger, Peter Plumeau, Rich Cruz, Natasha Desjardins   Visit Us https://www.seboc.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/sebocLI Join an Open-Mic event: https://www.seboc.com/events   References   Eseryel, U. Y., Crowston, K., & Heckman, R. (2021). Functional and visionary leadership in self-managing virtual teams. Group & Organization Management, 46(2), 424-460.   Krehl, E. H., & Büttgen, M. (2022). Uncovering the complexities of remote leadership and the usage of digital tools during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative diary study. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 36(3), 325-352.   Newman, S. A., & Ford, R. C. (2021). Five steps to leading your team in the virtual COVID-19 workplace. Organizational Dynamics, 50(1), 100802.

WorkCookie - A SEBOC Podcast
Ep. 211 - Managing from Afar: Leadership Practices for Remote Managers

WorkCookie - A SEBOC Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 55:38


Gain valuable insights and strategies to effectively balance flexibility with accountability in a remote work environment. Whether you're a remote worker or managing a remote team, this episode offers essential guidance for maintaining productivity and trust.  In this Episode: LindaAnn Rogers, Tom Bradshaw, Dr. Matthew Lampe, Dr. Martha Grajdek, Emi Barresi, Lee Crowson, Nic Krueger, Peter Plumeau, Rich Cruz, Natasha Desjardins   Visit Us https://www.seboc.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/sebocLI Join an Open-Mic event: https://www.seboc.com/events   References   Eseryel, U. Y., Crowston, K., & Heckman, R. (2021). Functional and visionary leadership in self-managing virtual teams. Group & Organization Management, 46(2), 424-460.   Krehl, E. H., & Büttgen, M. (2022). Uncovering the complexities of remote leadership and the usage of digital tools during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative diary study. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 36(3), 325-352.   Newman, S. A., & Ford, R. C. (2021). Five steps to leading your team in the virtual COVID-19 workplace. Organizational Dynamics, 50(1), 100802.

Queens and Rebels
26: Working Women of Medieval Europe

Queens and Rebels

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2021 41:57


Who were the working women of the medieval world. Instagram: QandRpod Email: QueensandRebelspod@gmail.com Sources: - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 By Judith M. Bennett, John R Hubbard Professor - Hanawalt, Barbara A. “Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 52, 1998, pp. 19–26. - "Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians," coauthored with Ruth Mazo Karras, in The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2013), 1-17. - Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Women in the Middle Ages. Harper Perennial, 2018. - Medieval Prostitution In Secular Law: The Sex Trade In Medieval London, Paris And Toulouse, Suzanne Meade, McMaster University, September 2001 - Youngs, Deborah. “Servants and Labourers on a Late Medieval Demesne: The Case of Newton, Cheshire, 1498-1520.” The Agricultural History Review, vol. 47, no. 2, 1999, pp. 145–160. - Crowston, C. (2008). Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research. International Review of Social History, 53(S16), 19-44. - Mount, Toni. “What Was Life like for a Medieval Housewife?” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/middle-ages-women-life-marriage-housewives-role-jobs-wear-clothes-husbands/. - Laumonier, Lucie. “Medieval Working Women: Their Role in the Trades of Southern France in the 14th Century.” Medievalists.net, 14 Mar. 2021, www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medieval-women-working/.

The Make Good Project with Sandra D'Souza
EP #07: Impact Investing – Maximizing the Positive with Elyse Crowston

The Make Good Project with Sandra D'Souza

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 29:45


2020 was a crazy year, and it sparked a lot of change in the way we go about our lives and our thoughts on the bigger world from a social and environmental perspective. Responsible investing is gaining more momentum as people aim to “put their money where their values are.” With that in mind, Elyse Crowston joins me today to talk about why impact investing is important to her and why the rest of us need to care. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2NhpvzB

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience
Nicotinamide provides neuroprotection in glaucoma by protecting against mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020


Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.21.348250v1?rss=1 Authors: Tribble, J. R., Otmani, A., Sun, S., Ellis, S. A., Cimaglia, G., Vohra, R., Joe, M., Lardner, E., Venkataraman, A. P., Dominguez-Vicent, A., Kokkali, E., Rho, S., Johannesson, G., Burgess, R. W., Fuerst, P. G., Brautaset, R., Kolko, M., Morgan, J. E., Crowston, J. G., Votruba, M., Williams, P. A. Abstract: Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a REDOX cofactor and metabolite essential for neuronal survival. Glaucoma is a common neurodegenerative disease in which neuronal levels of NAD decline. Repleting NAD via dietary supplementation of nicotinamide (a precursor to NAD) is effective in preventing retinal ganglion cell neurodegeneration in mouse models. Supporting this, short-term oral nicotinamide treatment in human glaucoma patients provides a recovery of retinal ganglion cell function implying a protection of visual function. Despite this, the mechanism of neuroprotection and full effects of nicotinamide on retinal ganglion cells is unclear. Glaucoma is a complex neurodegenerative disease in which a mix of healthy, stressed, and degenerating retinal ganglion cells co-exist, and in which retinal ganglion cells display compartmentalized degeneration across their visual trajectory. Therefore, we assess the effects of nicotinamide on retinal ganglion cells in normal physiological conditions and across a range of glaucoma relevant insults. We confirm neuroprotection afforded by nicotinamide in rodent models which represent isolated ocular hypertensive, axon degenerative, and mitochondrial degenerative insults. We define a small molecular weight metabolome for the retina, optic nerve, and superior colliculus which demonstrates that ocular hypertension induces widespread metabolic disruption that can be prevented by nicotinamide. Nicotinamide provides these neuroprotective effects by increasing oxidative phosphorylation, buffering and preventing metabolic stress, and increasing mitochondrial size and motility whilst simultaneously dampening action potential firing frequency. These data support continued determination of the utility of long-term NAM treatment as a neuroprotective therapy for human glaucoma. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Centre for Eye Research Australia
Professor Jonathan Crowston: World Glaucoma Week

Centre for Eye Research Australia

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2018 8:45


Professor Jonathan Crowston, Head, Glaucoma Research and Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) talks about glaucoma and current research at CERA for World Glaucoma Week.

Mindfulness Mode
254 Conquer Your Food Demons With Help From Lorraine Crowston

Mindfulness Mode

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2017 35:18


Lorraine Crowston is a certified life coach, a speaker and an author and is particularly interested in helping people deal with their food demons. Lorraine has worked as a chef, a computer network instructor, a trainer and a project manager. Lorraine Crowston has bundled all of her life experiences into a package where she helps people achieve physical and emotional health in playful, easy-to-follow steps. Her book, 'The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It', is a great example of Lorraine's unique way of viewing life and helping people. Contact Info Website: LorraineCrowston.com Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn: @LorraineCrowston Community: GoRead.com  (Lorraine has an author's page at GoRead.com) Book: The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It by Lorraine Crowston Most Influential Person Jenny McKee (One of the women I do a lot of networking with) Effect on Emotions Mindfulness has caused me to be a kinder, gentler person. I don't have to be the manager. I don't have to be the hard, make-all-the-decisions person. It's been a lovely journey. I'm really liking being able to sit back and just take it easy. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing is so interesting because I've just finished doing an audio book. It's the audio version of my book. I've taken a voice acting coach and I also do Yoga. Breathing is part of all of those things. When you're recording an audio book, you try not to breathe too loudly because it will pick it up and it has to be cleaned up later. But when you're doing Yoga, it's a totally different thing. You're making sure you totally focus on the breath. Suggested Resources Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Book: The Devil's Food Cake Made Me Do It by Lorraine Crowston App: FatSecret.com Bullying Story I was the smallest kid in the class. I don't term it quite so much as bullying, but I was definitely teased quite a bit. I was very fortunate, because I was the youngest of six, so once I got home I was safe. I had a whole crew of people around me that kept me safe. It was my safe haven. I think that a lot of the times, I look back and think about these people who had bullied me or teased me at the time and I sometimes wonder what was going on in their household. If they are feeling powerless at home, this is their was to regain power and so they're going to look for the person that they think is the most vulnerable and bully them. Unfortunately what happens, in my case it didn't work. I had five older siblings that picked on me. What I think happens is that they look for the most gentle soul who won't fight back. That's really a shame because these poor gentle souls are the ones who take the hit a lot more. They don't have that hard core to fight back and so it is much more damaging to them than what may have happened to me when I was growing up. My mom stopped protecting me and so I had to fight my own battles, so in a way, internally in my own house, I had to stand up for myself or find the means to navigate through the whole family dynamics. I had the tools for it. Imagine if I had been an only child where I'm closeted and maybe a gentle soul and I wouldn't have received those tools to sorta say, hold on, I'm not going to be your victim, I'm not going to take the bullying. Back off. Then you get those very bad situations.

Redemption Church Sermons
Testimony - Santino Crowston

Redemption Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2017 7:14


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New Books in Early Modern History
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in Early Modern History

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who's been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty's 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen's dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands' credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Gender Studies
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in Gender Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Popular Culture
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in Popular Culture

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:48


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in History
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in French Studies
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in French Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in European Studies
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in European Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:48


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who’s been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen’s dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands’ credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 60:22


Anyone who's been paying attention to the flurry around the French economist Thomas Piketty's 2013 Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century (Le Capital au XXIe siecle) knows how a la mode the economy is at the moment. Contemporary ideas and debates about capital, debt, and austerity are only part of what makes Clare Crowston‘s Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke University Press, 2013) such an interesting read in 2014. In this detailed study of the varied economic, political, social, and cultural meanings and practices of “credit” from the seventeenth through the eighteenth century, Crowston draws our attention to mutually constitutive worlds and systems of circulation. At once a genealogy of credit; an economic, social, and cultural history of fashion; and an examination of the roles of gender and desire in Old Regime France, Credit, Fashion, Sex makes an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the French Revolution while respecting the historical integrity of the period that came before. In addition to its conceptual and historiographical insights regarding credit and the complexities of Old Regime society, the book offers readers a fascinating and extensively-researched analysis of the everyday practices and systems of exchange that operated “behind the scenes” of more familiar stories. For example, the book illuminates the mythology and critiques surrounding Marie Antoinette, the queen who embodied like no one else the intersection between ideas about credit, fashion, and sexuality in the era before 1789. At the same time, Crowston gives us a glimpse of other figures and social actors who played vital roles in the society of the period: Rose Bertin, the queen's dressmaker; the fashion merchants who made so much luxury and refinement possible, as well as all those wives not married to Louis XVI who traded on/in their husbands' credit, participating in multiple economic and cultural systems of circulation and power.