ISBN:
0313323283
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 306 S
,
graph. Darst
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Contributions in family studies 18
Series Statement:
Contributions in family studies
DDC:
306.3/2
Keywords:
Land tenure Congresses History
;
Inheritance and succession Congresses History
;
Families Congresses History
;
Sex role Congresses History
;
Family services History
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Familie
;
Grundeigentum
;
Erbfolge
;
Geschichte 1640-1950
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : family welfare and the welfare family / David R. Green and Alastair OwensLand 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.
Description / 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 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-298) and index
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