Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity. (1998)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Johnson and Patricia Thane.
• Other Names: Johnson, Paul (Paul A.); Thane, Pat
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Historical readings of old age and ageing / Paul Johnson -- 2.Ageing in antiquity: status and participation / Tim G. Parkin -- 3.Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image, expectation and status / Shulamith Shahar -- 4.Ageing and well-being in early modern England: pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c. 1650 -- 1800 / Richard M. Smith -- 5.Balancing social and cultural approaches to the history of old age and ageing in Europe: a review and an example from post-Revolutionary France / David G. Troyansky -- 6.The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete notion? / Patrice Bourdelais -- 7.Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Christoph Conrad -- 8.Old age in the New World: New Zealand's colonial welfare experiment / David Thomson -- 9.The family lives of old people / Pat Thane -- 10.Parallel histories of retirement in modern Britain / Paul Johnson.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 244 p.), ill
• Subjects: 305.26 O441; Old age -- History; Old age -- Social aspects; Older people -- History; Old age; Old age -- Social aspects; Older people; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203021026; 0203021029; 9781134711246; 1134711247; 9781134711192; 1134711190; 9781134711239; 1134711239; 9780415164641; 0415164648; 9781138007093; 1138007099
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-240) and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.