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Author:   Paul Johnson ,  Pat Thane
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415164641

ISBN 10:   0415164648
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Historical readings of old age and ageing 2 Ageing in antiquity: status and participation 3 Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image, expectation and status 4 Ageing and well-being in early modern England: pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c. 1650–1800 5 Balancing social and cultural approaches to the history of old age and ageing in Europe: a review and an example from post-Revolutionary France 6 The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete notion? 7 Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 8 Old age in the New World: New Zealand’s colonial welfare experiment 9 The family lives of old people 10 Parallel histories of retirement in modern Britain

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What these essays reveal, then, is the need to take the next step in aging history: to form the bridge between cultural perceptions and social realities. American Historical Review, December 2000. <br>

Author Information

Paul Johnson is Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics. Pat Thane is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Sussex.

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