Power and Poverty: Old Age in the Pre-Industrial Past - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313311285 ISBN 13 : 9780313311284

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Despite calls since the 1970s for more research into the history of old age, there is still a relative dearth of historical studies on the elderly, especially in the pre-industrial past. This volume remedies much of that deficiency with essays exploring the lives of old men and old women, and the images of old age and aging, in early modern Europe and America. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate there was a strong association of advanced age with authority in the lived experience of older men and women. This book recognizes poverty and physical limitations were a very real threat, but challenges the tendency of existing literature on historical gerontology to associate old age with dependence and disability. Instead, what emerges from this volume is the success of older people in the past in imbuing their old age with dignity, despite the often vicious nature of old age in both popular and elite literature.

Essays are brought together on old age in early modern England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and America, enabling comparisons that cross geographical boundaries. Historians of old age, the family, demography, social history and cultural history will value this volume, as will sociologists and anthropologists interested in gerontology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

SUSANNAH R. OTTAWAY is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Carleton College.

L. A. BOTELHO is Associate Professor in the History Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

KATHARINE KITTREDGE is Associate Professor in the English Department at Ithaca College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313311285
• ISBN 13: 9780313311284
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Ottaway Susannah R., Botelho Lynn A., Kittredge Katharine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne