DAVID R. GREEN is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at King's College London. For the past five years he has been editor of the London Journal and has published widely in urban history.

ALASTAIR OWENS is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Family Welfare and the Welfare Family by David R. Green and Alastair Owens
Land Transmission and Inheritance Practices in France during the Ancien Regime: Differences of Degree or Kind? by Gerard Beaur
Emigration, Gender and Inheritance: A Case Study of the High Auvergne, 1700-1900, by Rose Duroux
Headship Succession and Retirement in South Bohemia, 1640-1840, by Hermann Zeitlhofer
Close Relatives and Useful Relatives: Welfare, Inheritance and the Use of Kinship in an Alpine Dynasty, 1650-1800, by Sandro Guzzi-Heeb
Wealth, Gender, and Inheritance Amongst the U.S. Elite: The Rockefellers and Binghams by Marsha Shapiro Rose
Family Networks and the Transmission of Assets: Managing the Property and Care of Orphans 18th-Century Amsterdam by Anne E. C. McCants
Did Women Invent Life Insurance? Widows and the Demand for Financial Services in 18th-Century Germany by Eve Rosenhaft
Women without Gender: Commerce, Exchange Codes and the Erosion of German Gender Guardianship, 1680-1830 by Robert Beachy
Minors, Guardians, and Inheritance in Early 19th-Century Sweden: A Case of Gendered Property Rights by Ann Ighe
Marriage and Economic Rights: Women, Men, and Property in Sweden during the First Half of the 20th Century by by Kirsti Niskanen
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