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Neoliberalising old age (2015)

Macnicol, John [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9781107115187 , 9781107535541 , 9781316335666

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource

DDC: 305.260973

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MG 10920

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MS 2700

Keywords: Politik ; Aging Government policy ; Ageism ; Older people Social conditions ; Older people Services for ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Altern ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Altern ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik

Abstract: "This book explores an issue central to the study of age and ageing: Do we wish to preserve old age as a discrete stage of life, to be protected by welfare policies specifically targeting 'the old'? Should old age be accorded a privileged status? This may recognise the needs of a particular age group with regard to health, income and social care. But by doing so, we support the inaccurate and possibly offensive definition of 'old age' as the stage of life beyond age 65 - a demarcation line which has no biological or cognitive significance, since human beings age at very different rates. Defining old age in this way may ghettoise and marginalise one group of people in society, encouraging prejudice against them via policies that 'single out, stigmatise and isolate the aged from the rest of society', in a way that can be seen as subtly ageist. On the other hand, should we dispense with age as a categorisation and work towards an 'age-irrelevant', 'age-neutral' or 'ageless' society - one in which individuals will be judged by the content of their character, rather than their chronological age? Is the concept of old age an outmoded relic from the past?"..

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316335666

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Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis (2006)

Macnicol, John [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9780511550560

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)

DDC: 331.3/98133

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QX 400

Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2005 ; Alter ; Diskriminierung ; USA ; Großbritannien

Abstract: Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550560

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Bridging the Atlantic : the question of American exceptionalism in perspective (2002)

Gläser, Elisabeth ; Wellenreuther, Hermann

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9781139052306

Language: English

Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages)

Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute

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DDC: 303.48/273043

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NK 7509

Keywords: National characteristics, American / Congresses ; Exceptionalism / United States / Congresses ; Historiography / Methodology / Congresses ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Deutschland ; Europa ; USA ; United States / Relations / Germany / Congresses ; Germany / Relations / United States / Congresses ; United States / Relations / Europe / Congresses ; Europe / Relations / United States / Congresses ; United States / Civilization / Congresses ; Germany / Civilization / Congresses ; Europe / Civilization / Congresses ; Deutschland ; USA ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Deutschland

Abstract: Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. Including case studies on British, German and US history since the eighteenth century, it seeks to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate between American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations

Description / Table of Contents: Liberal democracy as a culture of rights : England, the United States, and Continental Europe / Gerald Stourzh -- American exceptionalism : republicanism as ideology / Ari Hoogenboom -- The role of religion in Germany and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hartmut Lehmann -- The impact of Darwinism on religion and science in America and Europe during the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler -- Nationalism as a civil religion in the thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck / Hans L. Trefousse -- German Catholic communalism and the American Civil War : exploring the dilemmas of transatlantic political integration / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Toward a comparative history of racism and xenophobia in the United States and Germany, 1865-1933 / Kenneth L. Kusmer -- Movie stereotypes, 1890-1918 : some German and American national perceptions / Daniel J. Leab -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler : a contemporary comparison revisited / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- The role of the banker in transatlantic history : J.P. Morgan & Co. and aid for the Allies, 1914-1916 / Elisabeth Glaser -- Transatlantic history as national history? Thoughts on German post-World War II historiography / Peter Krüger -- American exceptionalism as national history? / Hans R. Guggisberg -- The historical world of Erich Angermann / Hermann Wellenreuther

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139052306

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Debating slavery : economy and society in the antebellum American South (1998)

Smith, Mark M. [Verfasser] 1968-

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9781139171120

Language: English

Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 117 pages)

Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 36

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DDC: 306.3/62/0975

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NP 6020

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NW 8295

Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1860 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Slavery / Economic aspects / Southern States ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Southern States / Economic conditions ; USA Südstaaten ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1790-1860 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte

Abstract: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139171120

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Sport, economy, and society in Britain, 1750-1914 (1998)

Tranter, N. L. [Verfasser] 1941-

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9780511622168

Language: English

Pages: 1 online resource (v, 112 pages)

Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 33

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DDC: 306.4/83/0941

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HD 402

Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1750-1914 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1750-1914

Abstract: This book provides a concise, up-to-date survey of one of the most dramatic changes in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, the radical transformation which occurred in the extent and nature of its participation in sport. Neil Tranter focuses on the issues which have attracted most interest from historians of sport and poses a number of important questions: did levels of involvement in sport increase or decrease during the initial stages of urban-industrialisation? When did the new sporting culture first emerge, and what were its principal features and the mechanisms through which it spread? What were the main aims of the participants and supporters, and to what extent were these aims achieved? The author also discusses the economic consequences of this cultural change and the examines the role of women in this sporting 'revolution' and asks why their participation was so much more restricted than that of men

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511622168

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Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930 (1995)

Baines, Dudley [Verfasser] 1939-

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9781139170994

Language: English

Pages: 1 online resource (v, 84 pages)

Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11

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DDC: 304.8/094/09034

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LB 56005

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Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Geschichte 1815 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Probleme ; Auswanderung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Europa ; Europe / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; Europa ; Europa ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Soziale Probleme ; Geschichte 1815 ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Lage

Abstract: Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139170994

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The retreat of scientific racism : changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars (1992)

Barkan, Elazar 1954-

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

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ISBN: 9780511558351

Language: English

Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)

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DDC: 305.8

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MC 7400

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MS 3530

Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945

Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Anthropology , Constructing a British identity , Colors into races , A transition to modern British anthropology , The founding fathers , Mummies, bones and stones , The shift in British archaeology , A British glimpse at race relations , American diversity , Haunted sentinels , European skulls and the primitive mind , The Boasians , American physical anthropology , The politics of coexistence , Dionysia in the Pacific , Biology , In search of a biology of race , NewGenics , The statistician's fable , Race crossing in Jamaica , A Canadian in London: rigid Reginald Ruggles Gates , The limit of traditional reform , A racist liberal: Julian Huxley's early years , Herbert Spencer Jennings and progressive eugenics , A conservative critique: Raymond Pearl , Bridging race formalism and population genetics , Mitigating racial differences , Lancelot Hogben , "Africa view"--Huxley's changing perspectives , J.B.S. Haldane: a defiant aristocrat , Medicine and eugenics: expanding the environment , Eugenics reformed , Politics , Confronting racism: scientists as politicians , 1933--Early hesitations , Britain--Race and Culture Committee , We Europeans , The American scene , An international interlude , The Paris Congress , The population committee , Out of the closet

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511558351

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