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Aging in the Past - Demography, Society, and Old Age (Paperback)
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Aging in the Past - Demography, Society, and Old Age (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Demography, 7
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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 Wetherell
This 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.
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