Format:
XIV, 408 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0520084659
,
0520084667
Series Statement:
Studies in demography 7
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 380 - 383
,
Necessary knowledge : age and aging in the societies of the past
,
Elderly persons and members of their households in England and Wales from preindustrial times to the present
,
The elderly in the bosom of the family : la famille souche and hardship reincorporation
,
Household systems and the lives of the old in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hungary
,
Migration in the later years of life in traditional Europe
,
Older lives on the frontier : the residential patterns of the older population of Texas, 1850-1910
,
A home of one's own : aging and home ownership in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
,
The impact of widowhood in nineteenth-century Italy
,
The demography of widowhood in preindustrial New Hampshire
,
Transition to widowhood and family support systems in the twentieth century, northeastern United States
,
The impact of aging on the employment of men in American working-class communities at the end of the nineteenth century
,
Trends in old age mortality in the United States, 1900-1935 : evidence from railroad pensions
,
Toward a historical demography of aging
Additional Edition:
Nachgedruckt als Aging in the past
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Alter
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1800-1990
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Kertzer, David I. 1948-
