03101oam 2200661I 450 991077993770332120230207222851.01-134-71123-91-134-71124-71-280-33319-70-203-02102-90-203-27355-910.4324/9780203021026(CKB)111056485532528(EBL)166964(OCoLC)76898523(SSID)ssj0000214299(PQKBManifestationID)11234969(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214299(PQKBWorkID)10156158(PQKB)10463500(MiAaPQ)EBC166964(Au-PeEL)EBL166964(CaPaEBR)ebr10056211(CaONFJC)MIL33319(OCoLC)958103501(EXLCZ)9911105648553252820180706d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOld age from antiquity to post-modernity /edited by Paul Johnson and Patricia ThaneLondon ;New York :Routledge,1998.1 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-00709-9 0-415-16464-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index.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; IndexBased 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 historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.Old ageHistoryOld ageSocial aspectsOlder peopleHistoryOld ageHistory.Old ageSocial aspects.Older peopleHistory.305.2609Johnson Paul(Paul A.)127483Thane Pat218341FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910779937703321Old age from antiquity to post-modernity3746665UNINA