LEADER 03138nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910806257303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-71123-9 010 $a1-134-71124-7 010 $a1-280-33319-7 010 $a0-203-02102-9 010 $a0-203-27355-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203021026 035 $a(CKB)111056485532528 035 $a(EBL)166964 035 $a(OCoLC)76898523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234969 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156158 035 $a(PQKB)10463500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC166964 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL166964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10056211 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL33319 035 $a(OCoLC)958103501 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485532528 100 $a19980506d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOld age from antiquity to post-modernity /$fedited by Paul Johnson and Pat Thane 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge/LSE$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-00709-9 311 $a0-415-16464-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index. 327 $aBook 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? 327 $aOld 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 330 $aBased 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. 606 $aOld age$xHistory 606 $aOld age$xSocial aspects 606 $aOlder people$xHistory 615 0$aOld age$xHistory. 615 0$aOld age$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aOlder people$xHistory. 676 $a305.2609 701 $aJohnson$b Paul$g(Paul A.)$0127483 701 $aThane$b Pat$0218341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806257303321 996 $aOld age from antiquity to post-modernity$94091475 997 $aUNINA