Aging in the past : demography, society, and old age / edited by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett.

Other author Kertzer, David I., 1948-
Other author Laslett, Peter.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Descriptionxiv, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in demography ; 7
Studies in demography (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 7. ^A220408
Contents Necessary knowledge : age and aging in the societies of the past / Peter Laslett -- Elderly persons and members of their households in England and Wales from preindustrial times to the present / Richard Wall -- The elderly in the bosom of the family : la famille souche and hardship reincorporation / E.A. Hammond -- Household systems and the lives of the old in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hungary / Rudolf Andorka -- Migration in the later years of life in traditional Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell -- Older lives on the frontier : the residential patterns of the older population of Texas, 1850-1910 / Myron P. Gutmann -- A home of one's own : aging and home ownership in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Michael R. Haines and Allen C. Goodman -- The impact of widowhood in nineteenth-century Italy / David I. Kertzer and Nancy Karweit -- The demography of widowhood in preindustrial New Hampshire / Daniel Scott Smith -- Transition to widowhood and family support systems in the twentieth century, northeastern United States / Tamara K. Hareven and Peter Uhlenberg -- The impact of aging on the employment of men in American working-class communities at the end of the nineteenth century / Roger I. Ransom and Richard Sutch -- Trends in old age mortality in the United States, 1900-1935 : evidence from railroad pensions / George Alter -- Toward a historical demography of aging / David I. Kertzer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93033288
ISBN0520084659 (alk. paper)
ISBN0520084667 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1061 .A463 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold