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UNINA9910782648503321 |
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Autore |
Gelfand Donald E |
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Titolo |
Aging and ethnicity [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge and services / / Donald E. Gelfand |
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New York, : Springer Pub., c2003 |
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1-281-81845-3 |
9786611818456 |
0-8261-7422-1 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Minority older people - United States |
Minority older people - Services for - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Ethnicity, Gerontological Theory, and Research; Chapter Two: Ethnicity, Immigration, and the Ethnic Aged; Chapter Three: Ethnic Aged in the United States; Chapter Four: Security and the Ethnic Elderly; Chapter Five: Family and Religious Organizations as Sources of Assistance; Chapter Six: Reaching and Meeting Ethnic Aged Needs; Chapter Seven: Programs, Services, and the Ethnic Aged; Chapter Eight: Paradigms, Assumptions, and Assessments; Index |
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In the Second Edition, Gelfand devotes greater attention to the impact of immigration on the United States and provides a useful model for providers working with older persons from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Based on 2000 Census data, this edition contains updated references throughout along with new tables/graphs. Chapter topics include: Security and the Ethnic Elderly; Family and Church as Sources of Assistance; and Programs and Services for the Ethnic Aged. Not meant to be an exhaustive review of the literature, the text focuses on specific issues and themes that the author believes are im |
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UNINA9910254776603321 |
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Titolo |
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World / / edited by Simon Sleight, Shirleene Robinson |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, , 2634-6540 |
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Civilization - History |
Great Britain - History |
Imperialism |
Social history |
World history |
Cultural History |
History of Britain and Ireland |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
Social History |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The World in Miniature; Part I: Children and Adults; 1 A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature; 2 Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750-1947; 3 Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa; Part II: Rites of Passage; 4 'He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it's [sic] influence': Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800-1830 |
5 'Dear Mummy and Daddy': Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War6 East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World; Part III: Indigenous |
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Experiences; 7 Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia; 8 Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal; 9 Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908-1920; Part IV: Literary Childhoods |
10 Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children's Literature, 1862-189911 The 'Willful' Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872-1923; Part V: Youth and Sexuality; 12 Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890-1914; 13 Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl ; Part VI: Children's Empires and Material Cultures; 14 Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880-1914 |
15 Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the MuseumBibliography; Index |
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Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world. |
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