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Someday All This Will Be Yours - A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Hardcover) Loot Price: R956
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Someday All This Will Be Yours - A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Hardcover): Hendrik Hartog

Someday All This Will Be Yours - A History of Inheritance and Old Age (Hardcover)

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 over the work of care and its compensation.

"Someday All This Will Be Yours" narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and commitments and money.

From one of the bedrocks of the human condition the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and are owed as members of a family.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Hendrik Hartog
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04688-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Intergenerational relationships
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > Wills & probate
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-674-04688-9
Barcode: 9780674046887

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