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Titolo |
Old age from antiquity to post-modernity / / edited by Paul Johnson and Pat Thane |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge/LSE, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-71123-9 |
1-134-71124-7 |
1-280-33319-7 |
0-203-02102-9 |
0-203-27355-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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JohnsonPaul (Paul A.) |
ThanePat |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Old age - History |
Old age - Social aspects |
Older people - History |
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Formato |
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 (p. [226]-240) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Historical readings of old age and ageing; Ageing in antiquity: status and participation; Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image, expectation and status; Ageing and well-being in early modern England: pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c. 1650 1800; Balancing social and cultural approaches to the history of old age and ageing in Europe: a review and an example from post-Revolutionary France; The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete notion? |
Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesOld age in the New World: New Zealand's colonial welfare experiment; The family lives of old people; Parallel histories of retirement in modern Britain; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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