Abstract

Part 1 The maturing and dissolution of dynastic organizations: the domestication of capital and the capitalization of family the fiduciary in American family dynasties generation-skipping trusts and parent-child relations the hunts, silver, and dynastic families in America. Part 2 Dynastic sensibilities: the problem of the unseen world of wealth for the rich the ethnographic study of notable American families the dynastic uncanny the making of pious dynastic endgame - Sallie Bingham and the fall of the house of Bingham. Part 3 Legacy: European high culture in Los Angeles - the J.Paul Getty Trust as artificial curiosity inside a dynastic simulacrum the empty tomb - the making of dynastic identity.

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HistoryPolitical scienceEconomic historyAncient history

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Year
1994
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article
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
765-765
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78
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Richard Bradley, George E. Marcus, Peter Dobkin Hall (1994). Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 24 (4) , 765-765. https://doi.org/10.2307/205679

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