| Description |
xiv, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in demography ; 7 |
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Studies in demography (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 7
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| Contents |
1. Necessary Knowledge: Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past / Peter Laslett -- 2. Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present / Richard Wall -- 3. The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family: La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation / E. A. Hammel -- 4. Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary / Rudolf Andorka -- 5. Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell -- 6. Older Lives on the Frontier: The Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910 / Myron P. Gutmann -- 7. 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 -- 8. The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy / David I. Kertzer |
| Analysis |
Ageing Sociology History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program |
| Subject |
Older people -- History.
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Old age -- Social aspects.
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Population -- History.
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Aged -- history
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| Author |
Kertzer, David I., 1948-
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Laslett, Peter.
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| LC no. |
93033288 |
| ISBN |
0520084659 (alk. paper) |
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0520084667 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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