Old age in the new land : the American experience since 1790 /
| Основен автор: | Achenbaum, W. Andrew. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c1978.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Old age in the new land. |
Съдържание:
- 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