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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524703703321

Autore

Achenbaum W. Andrew

Titolo

Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / / W. Andrew Achenbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

301.4350973

Soggetti

Public opinion

Older people

Alter

Opinion publique - ©Etats-Unis

Personnes ©ag©ees - ©Etats-Unis - Opinion publique

Personnes ©ag©ees - ©Etats-Unis - Histoire

Geriatrics - history

Aged - history

Public opinion - United States

Older people - United States - Public opinion

Older people - United States - History

History

United States

USA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America -- The usefulness of old age -- Variations on a theme -- The obsolescence of old age -- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in



twentieth-century America -- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective -- Old age becomes a national problem -- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged -- Old age in the United States since Social Security.