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Author : David G. Troyansky
Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Old Age in the Old Regime by : David G. Troyansky
Download or read book Old Age in the Old Regime written by David G. Troyansky. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Release : 1856
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Old Regime and the Revolution by : Alexis de Tocqueville
Download or read book The Old Regime and the Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville. This book was released on 1856. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Troyansky
Release : 2019-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 367/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Age in the Old Regime by : David Troyansky
Download or read book Old Age in the Old Regime written by David Troyansky. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.
Author : Carole Haber
Release : 1993-12-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 023/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Age and the Search for Security by : Carole Haber
Download or read book Old Age and the Search for Security written by Carole Haber. This book was released on 1993-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haber and Gratton lay to rest many conventional assumptions concerning the place of older persons in American history." -- Choice "Haber and Gratton's meaty little book does more than provide an intelligent synthesis of existing old-age history; its new interpretations, insights, and shifts of emphasis will provoke responses and help move historians' work away from the now threadbare original disputes in e field toward new questions and approaches." -- American Historical Review "Indeed, Haber and Gratton give us a refreshingly multidimensional history of the shift in old-age security from work, assets, or children to government annuities." -- Contemporary Sociology "... the history of old age has finally come of age. The authors successfully synthesize the best of the earlier social and cultural studies with new empirical evidence and recent findings of economic historians." -- Journal of Economic History "A truly 'revisionary' interpretation of the cultural and structural forces that shaped the elderly's lives from the colonial period to the present. Lucid and controversial, [it] is bound to be widely cited and hotly contested." -- W. Andrew Achenbaum This social history of the American elderly offers a provocative new view of aging in the United States. It revises traditional assumptions about the economic status of the old and challenges the long-held contention that industrialization destroyed family relationships.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Release : 2012-02-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.
