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Family and Inheritance: Rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800 Washington State Book Award (2002) Valente’s endless invention and mythicEditor: Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979 Condition: Softcover, slight markings on first page, interior clean This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in