TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Paul
AU  - Thane,Pat
TI  - Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity
T2  - Routledge studies in cultural history
SN  - 0203273559
AV  - HQ1061 .O377 1998eb
U1  - 305.26 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Old age
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Older people
KW  - Vieillesse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Personnes âgées
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gerontology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Aging
KW  - fast
KW  - Ouderen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ouderdom
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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?
N2  - Featuring both methodological and empirical studies, Old Age represents a substantial contribution to the historical understanding of old age in past societies, as well as to the debate about post-modernism in historical study
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