Family welfare : gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century / edited by David R. Green and Alastair Owens.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-298) and index.

Introduction : family welfare and the welfare family / David R. Green and Alastair Owens -- Land transmission and inheritance practices in France during the Ancien R{u2967}ime : differences of degree or kind? / G{u2972}ard B{u2961}ur -- 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.