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Family welfare : gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century
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Family welfare : gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century

Author: David R Green; Alastair Owens
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.
Series: Contributions in family studies, no. 18
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David R Green; Alastair Owens
ISBN: 0313323283 9780313323287
OCLC Number: 54759186
Description: xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 Title: Contributions in family studies, no. 18
Responsibility: edited by David R. Green and Alastair Owens.

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