Old age from antiquity to post-modernity / edited by Paul Johnson and Pat Thane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Paul (Paul A.)

Thane, Pat.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age--History.

Old age.

Old age--Social aspects.

Older people--History.

Older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge/LSE, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Historical readings of old age and ageing; Ageing in antiquity: status and participation; Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image, expectation and status; Ageing and well-being in early modern England: pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c. 1650 1800; Balancing social and cultural approaches to the history of old age and ageing in Europe: a review and an example from post-Revolutionary France; The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete notion?

Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesOld age in the New World: New Zealand's colonial welfare experiment; The family lives of old people; Parallel histories of retirement in modern Britain; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71123-9

1-134-71124-7

1-280-33319-7

0-203-02102-9

0-203-27355-9

9780203021026

OCLC:

76898523