Aging in the past : demography, society, and old age

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ix
• Contributors = xiii
• PART I INTRODUCTION
• 1. Necessary Knowledge : Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past / Peter Laslett = 3
• PART II LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
• 2. Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present / Richard Wall = 81
• 3. The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family : La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation / E.A. Hammel = 107
• 4. Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary / Rudolf Andorka = 129
• 5. Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe / Andrejs Plakans ; Charles Wetherell = 156
• 6. Older Lives on the Frontier : The Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910 / Myron P. Gutmann = 175
• 7. 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 ; Allen C. Goodman = 203
• PART III WIDOWHOOD
• 8. The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy / David I. Kertzer ; Nancy Karweit = 229
• 9. The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire / Daniel Scott Smith = 249
• 10. Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States / Tamara K. Hareven ; Peter Uhlenberg = 273
• PART IV RETIREMENT AND MORTALITY
• 11. The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Roger L. Ransom ; Richard Sutch = 303
• 12. Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935 : Evidence from Railroad Pensions / George Alter = 328
• PART V CONCLUSION
• 13. Toward a Historical Demography of Aging / David I. Kertzer = 363
• Index = 385