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Tables of Contents for Urban Fortunes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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