Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity

Herausgeber: Johnson, Paul; Thane, Pat

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415164641
• ISBN-10: 0415164648
• Artikelnr.: 21354428

Autorenporträt

Paul Johnson is Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics. Pat Thane is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Historical readings of old age and ageing 2 Ageing in antiquity: status
and participation 3 Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image,
expectation and status 4 Ageing and well-being in early modern England:
pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c.
1650-1800 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 6 The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete
notion? 7 Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries 8 Old age in the New World: New Zealand's colonial
welfare experiment 9 The family lives of old people 10 Parallel histories
of retirement in modern Britain