Family welfare
Subtitle: gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century
By: edited by David R. Green and Alastair Owens.
Contributors: Green, David R., 1954-.; Owens, Alastair, 1971-
Series: Contributions in family studies -- no. 18
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Land tenure -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Inheritance and succession -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Family -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Sex role -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : family welfare and the welfare family / David R. Green and Alastair Owens; title: Land transmission and inheritance practices in France during the Ancien Régime : differences of degree or kind? / Gérard Béaur; title: Emigration, gender and inheritance : a case study of the high Auvergne, 1700/1900 / Rose Duroux; title: Headship succession and retirement in South Bohemia, 1640/1840 / Hermann Zeitlhofer; title: Close relatives and useful relatives : welfare, inheritance and the use of kinship in an alpine dynasty, 1650/1800 / Sandro Guzzi-Heeb; title: Wealth, gender and inheritance amongst the U.S. elite : the Rockefellers and Binghams / Marsha Shapiro Rose; title: Family networks and the transmission of assets : managing the property and care of orphans in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Anne E.C. Mccants; title: Did women invent life insurance? : widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft; title: Women without gender : commerce, exchange codes and the erosion of german gender guardianship, 1680/1830 / Robert Beachy; title: Minors, guardians and inheritance in early nineteenth-century Sweden : a case of gendered property rights / Ann Ighe; title: Marriage and economic rights : women, men and property in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century / Kirsti Niskanen.