This book shows how inheritance is, and has always been, more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. It makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage t...Lasīt vairāk
This open access book uses new methodologies from the history and sociology of emotions to analyse why people select specific tokens of family inheritance, and how this influences personal identity, cultural heritage, and national memory. ...Lasīt vairāk
This book shows how inheritance is, and has always been, more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. It makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Mar-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674271791)
In countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative, ethnographic, and archival research, The Gender of Capital explains how and why women of all classes are economically d...Lasīt vairāk
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called canonical wills...Lasīt vairāk
The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality. The volume is compleme...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Dec-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN-13: 9781250001504)
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Michael Ares, taking over the helm of a private corporation that has developed antigravity technology, becomes the target of Chinese general Zhang Sun who wants him dead in the worst way. In the near future, a post-quake San Francisco is rul...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of thirteen essays explores contemporary intellectual and legal discourse surrounding inheritance and bequeathing. They emerge from a workshop whose title the collection retains, though a few are sourced by other experts. They interro...Lasīt vairāk
Margarida Durćes, Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, LIorenē Ferrer i Alņs, Jan Kok
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Oct-2009, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034300568)
What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the pre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Mar-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804760362)
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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you cant take it with you. Friedmans enlightening social history of the law of succession reveals how inheritance reflects changes values and priorities in American families and society....Lasīt vairāk
Friedman (Stanford Law School) examines the historical development of the law of succession in the U.S. and the right of the dying to determine what happens to their property after death. The text explores the extent to which the dead can rule over t...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in the Legal History of the South
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820329802)
Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. These men, whose wills wer...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in the Legal History of the South
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Feb-2009, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820332512)
Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children. These men, whose wills wer...Lasīt vairāk
In this authoritative study, Elmelech investigates the role that generational heritage plays in social stratification. Transmitting Inequality provides the essential theoretical framework for examining the institutional inequalities that shape the di...Lasīt vairāk
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In this authoritative study, Elmelech investigates the role that generational heritage plays in social stratification. Transmitting Inequality provides the essential theoretical framework for examining the institutional inequalities that shape...Lasīt vairāk
Is the United States the land of equal opportunity or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? This title provides answers to these...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2007, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781934110607)
In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter.Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2006, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578068647)
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In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the...Lasīt vairāk
Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2005, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691119304)
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Is the United States the land of equal opportunity or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit eco...Lasīt vairāk
Nine substantially revised versions of papers presented at a January 1999 colloquium in London provide perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the ownership, use, and transmission of property in British towns during the two centuries following...Lasīt vairāk
The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply co...Lasīt vairāk
Clignets analysis of the processes of biological, economic, and cultural reproduction at work in inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment by a sociologist. Using the concept of reproduction to organize his data, Cligne...Lasīt vairāk
