Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700û1900

by Stobart,Jon

• ISBN13: 9780754600817
• ISBN10: 0754600815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-03-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. 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.

Author Biography

Jon Stobart is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Coventry Alastair Owens is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Luton

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
List of figures and plates	xi
Notes on contributors	xii
Preface	xiv
Introduction	1	(25)
Alastair Owens
Jon Stobart
Town versus country: the property of everyday consumption in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries	26	(24)
Lorna Scammell
Meanings of property and the world of the petite bourgeoisie	50	(29)
Geoffrey Crossick
Property, will making and estate disposal in an industrial town, 1800--57	79	(29)
Alastair Owens
Social and geographical contexts of property transmission in the eighteenth century	108	(23)
John Stobart
The role of London in Britain's wealth structure, 1809--99: further evidence	131	(18)
W. D. Rubinstein
Inheritance and the family: the Scottish urban experience in the 1820s	149	(23)
Ann McCrum
Women, property and inheritance: wealth creation and income generation in small English towns, 1750--1835	172	(23)
Penelope Lane
Independent women, wealth and wills in nineteenth-century London	195	(28)
David R. Green
Bibliography	223	(16)
Index	239