Old age from antiquity to post-modernity / / edited by Paul Johnson and Patricia Thane

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2609
• Soggetto topico: Old age - History; Old age - Social aspects; Older people - History
• Altri autori: JohnsonPaul (Paul A.) ThanePat
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.
• Titolo autorizzato: Old age from antiquity to post-modernity
• ISBN: 1-134-71123-9; 1-134-71124-7; 1-280-33319-7; 0-203-02102-9; 0-203-27355-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779937703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II