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Autore |
Achenbaum W. Andrew |
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Titolo |
Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / / W. Andrew Achenbaum |
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Johns Hopkins University Press |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public opinion |
Older people |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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