Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity. (1998)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity. (1998)
- Main Title:
- Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity
- 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.
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