ISBN:
9780520377103
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (424 p.)
Series Statement:
Studies in Demography 7
DDC:
305.26/09
Keywords:
Old age Social aspects
;
Older people History
;
Population History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography
Abstract:
Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of aging. Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the problems of the aged. Contributors: George Alter, Rudolf Andorka, Allen C. Goodman, Myron P. Gutmann, Michael R. Haines, E. A. Hammel, Tamara K. Hareven, Nancy Karweit, David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett, Andrejs Plakans, Roger L. Ransom, Daniel Scott Smith, Richard Sutch, Peter Uhlenberg, Richard Wall, Charles WetherellThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Necessary Knowledge: Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past -- PART II. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS -- 2. Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present -- 3. The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family: La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation -- 4. Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary -- 5. Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe -- 6. Older Lives on the Frontier: The Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910 -- 7. A Home of One's Own: Aging and Home Ownership in the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century -- PART III. WIDOWHOOD -- 8. The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- 9. The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire -- 10. Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States -- PART IV. RETIREMENT AND MORTALITY -- 11. The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 12. Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935: Evidence from Railroad Pensions -- PART V. CONCLUSION -- 13. Toward a Historical Demography of Aging -- INDEX
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520377103
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