Inheritance in America : from colonial times to the present / Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, Michel Dahlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shammas, Carole.

Contributor:

Salmon, Marylynn, 1951-

Dahlin, Michel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inheritance and succession--United States--History.

Inheritance and succession.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Galveston, Tex. : Frontier Press, 1997, ©1987.

Summary:

"Inheritance in America is the first study of how Americans have distributed household wealth over three centuries -- from the 1700s to the 1980s. Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin focus on the relationship between the inheritance process and changes in capitalism and the structure of the family" -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America

Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism

1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies

2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism

3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law

Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

4. Inheritance Law and the Rights of Women and Children in the Nineteenth Century

5. Testamentary Behavior in the 1790s and 1890s

Part Three: State Capitalism and Inheritance Today

6. The Federal Estate Tax and Inheritance

7. Demographic Change, Old-Age Policy, and the Family

8. Inheritance Law and the Unfinished Revolution

9. Testamentary Behavior in the Late Twentieth Century

Conclusion: Inheritance, the Family, and Capitalism

Appendixes

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-312) and index.

ISBN:

0932231128

9780932231123

OCLC:

37021868