Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-298) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : family welfare and the welfare family / David R. Green and Alastair Owens -- Land transmission and inheritance practices in France during the Ancien Régime : differences of degree or kind? / Gérard Béaur -- 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.
Series:
Contributions in family studies, 0147-1023 ; no. 18
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