Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age

by Hendrik Hartog

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We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life's most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674046889

ISBN13:9780674046887

Release Date:January 2012

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century 20th Century Aging Parents Business Historical Study & Educational Resources History Law Legal History Parenting & Relationships Property Social History

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