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Autore: | Achenbaum W. Andrew |
Titolo: | Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 / / W. Andrew Achenbaum |
Pubblicazione: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 301.4350973 |
Soggetto topico: | Public opinion |
Older people | |
Alter | |
Opinion publique - ©Etats-Unis | |
Personnes ©ag©ees - ©Etats-Unis - Opinion publique | |
Personnes ©ag©ees - ©Etats-Unis - Histoire | |
Geriatrics - history | |
Aged - history | |
Public opinion - United States | |
Older people - United States - Public opinion | |
Older people - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States |
USA | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
Note generali: | The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License |
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America -- The usefulness of old age -- Variations on a theme -- The obsolescence of old age -- pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age -- The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America -- Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America -- pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective -- Old age becomes a national problem -- Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged -- Old age in the United States since Social Security. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Old Age in the New Land |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910524703703321 |
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