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

by Hendrik Hartog

Book Overview

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: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.3"