Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700–1900 (Historical Urban Studies Series) - Hardcover

Stobart, Jon; Owens, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754600815 ISBN 13: 9780754600817

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart of discussions of material culture, class relations and the household economy. Recent work has begun to look beyond the acquisition and possession of goods to examine what the disposal, transmission and giving of property might tell us about changing society and culture. This landmark collection of articles represents a wide range of approaches to and perspectives on the ownership, use and transmission of property in eighteenth and nineteenth-century towns. An introductory essay highlights the importance of property and inheritance in shaping social, cultural, economic and political structures and interactions within and between towns and cities. Writing from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors then explore in detail the changing meaning of property to households and individuals; the social, economic and geographical contexts of inheritance practices; the geography of wealth; the role of gender in shaping property relations and, perhaps above all, the enduring link between property, the family and the household in urban contexts.

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Jon Stobart, Alastair Owens

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754600815
• ISBN 13: 9780754600817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256