Old Age in the New Land : The American Experience since 1790 /

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Hoofdauteur: Achenbaum, W. Andrew
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Reeks:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • pt. I: Changing perceptions of the aged's roles in nineteenth-century America
  • The usefulness of old age
  • Variations on a theme
  • The obsolescence of old age
  • pt. II: The demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of old age
  • The rhetoric and realities of growing old diverge in nineteenth-century America
  • Old age becomes "modern" in twentieth-century America
  • pt. III: Contemporary old age in historical perspective
  • Old age becomes a national problem
  • Social Security: A novel solution for the problem of America's aged
  • Old age in the United States since Social Security.