The Decline of Indivisible Inheritance in Catalonia
Artisans, Sailors, and Merchants in Two Catalan Towns (1780–1860)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6080230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosa Ros (0000-0002-4072-7963, Departament d’Economia, Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Campus de Montilivi, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-84 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199011428048 |
| PMID | 27652405 |
| OpenAlex | W2072884355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article studies the decline of the traditional primogeniture-based Catalan inheritance system. The analysis of marriage contracts and testaments from two towns and their hinterland between 1780 and 1860 shows the variation in the succession practices among different sociooccupational groups. The study reveals that the decline of the indivisible inheritance started in the towns, whose inhabitants were mainly artisans, merchants, or sailors, a lot earlier than in the rural world. These transformations of traditional succession practices were fuelled by structural changes of the crafts and by the increasing emigration to America
Archaeology · Biology · Catalan · Ecological succession · Economics · Economy · Emigration · Genealogy · Geography · Humanities · Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |