02863oam 2200445I 450 991049595850332120210429094502.00-585-07892-0(CKB)111054828791238(OCoLC)ocm56777848(EXLCZ)9911105482879123820180129d1995 uy 0engurbn#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAging in the past demography, society, and old age /edited by David I. Kertzer, Peter LaslettBerkeley :University of California Press,[1995]1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) illustrationsStudies in demography ;70-520-08466-7 0-520-08465-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 demography of aging / David I. Kertzer.Studies in demography (Berkeley, Calif.) ;7.Older peopleHistoryOld ageSocial aspectsPopulationHistoryElectronic books.Older peopleHistory.Old ageSocial aspects.PopulationHistory.305.26/09Kertzer David I.1948-Laslett PeterBOOK9910495958503321AGING in the past625819UNINA