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UNINA9910495958503321 |
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Titolo |
Aging in the past : demography, society, and old age / / edited by David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1995] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Studies in demography ; ; 7 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Older people - History |
Old age - Social aspects |
Population - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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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Necessary knowledge : age and aging in the societies of the past / Peter Laslett -- Elderly persons and members of their households in England and Wales from preindustrial times to the present / Richard Wall -- The elderly in the bosom of the family : la famille souche and hardship reincorporation / E.A. Hammel -- Household systems and the lives of the old in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hungary / Rudolf Andorka -- Migration in the later years of life in traditional Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell -- Older lives on the frontier : the residential patterns of the older population of Texas, 1850-1910 / Myron P. Gutmann -- A home of one's own : aging and home ownership in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Michael R. Haines and Allen C. Goodman -- The impact of widowhood in nineteenth-century Italy / David I. Kertzer and Nancy Karweit -- The demography of widowhood in preindustrial New Hampshire / Daniel Scott Smith -- Transition to widowhood and family support systems in the twentieth century, northeastern United States / Tamara K. Hareven and Peter Uhlenberg -- The impact of aging on the employment of men in American working-class communities at the end of the nineteenth century / Roger I. Ransom and Richard Sutch -- Trends in old age mortality in the United States, 1900-1935 : evidence from railroad pensions / George Alter -- Toward a historical |
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