Chapters: Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America - Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism - 1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies - 2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism - 3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law - Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism - 4. Inheritance Law and the Rights of Women and Children in the Nineteenth Century - 5. Testamentary Behavior in the 1 790s and 1890s Part Three: State Capitalism and Inheritance Today - 6. The Federal Estate Tax and Inheritance - 7. Demographic Change, Old-Age Policy, and the Family - 8. Inheritance Law and the Unfinished Revolution - 9. Testamentary Behavior in the Late Twentieth Century - Conclusion: Inheritance, the Family, and Capitalism.
