| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Aging in the past/ edited by David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett. |
| Reminder of title: |
demography, society, and old age / |
| remainder title: |
Aging |
| other author: |
Kertzer, David I., |
| Published: |
Berkeley :University of California Press, : c1995., |
| Description: |
xiv, 408 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. Hammel -- 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. |
| Subject: |
Old age - Social aspects. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21243An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585078920 (electronic bk.) |