Family welfare gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
2004.
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| Series: | Contributions in family studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : family welfare and the welfare family / David R. Green and Alastair Owens
- Land transmission and inheritance practices in France during the Ancien Regime : differences of degree or kind? / Gerard Beaur
- Emigration, gender and inheritance : a case study of the high Auvergne, 1700/1900 / Rose Duroux
- Headship succession and retirement in South Bohemia, 1640/1840 / Hermann Zeitlhofer
- Close relatives and useful relatives : welfare, inheritance and the use of kinship in an alpine dynasty, 1650/1800 / Sandro Guzzi-Heeb
- Wealth, gender and inheritance amongst the U.S. elite : the Rockefellers and Binghams / Marsha Shapiro Rose
- Family networks and the transmission of assets : managing the property and care of orphans in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Anne E.C. Mccants
- Did women invent life insurance? : widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft
- Women without gender : commerce, exchange codes and the erosion of german gender guardianship, 1680/1830 / Robert Beachy
- Minors, guardians and inheritance in early nineteenth-century Sweden : a case of gendered property rights / Ann Ighe
- Marriage and economic rights : women, men and property in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century / Kirsti Niskanen.