Old Age in the New Land The American Experience since 1790
Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, W. Andrew Achenbaum analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America's elderly in the course of its history. By providing a historical perspective on society's conceptions of aging—and its effects on hu...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
