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Aging in World History
About this book
In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world.
From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, Aging in World History is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.
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Index
- AARP 141
- Aboderin, Isabella 111
- Ache 11
- Achenbaum, W. Andrew 5, 6, 71, 72
- Adarkar, B.P. 122
- Africa 89, 90–93
- age-sets in 12
- contemporary 111–13
- hunter-gatherers in 10, 11; see also individual countries
- African Americans 89, 138, 139
- age and public office 20, 30, 46, 50
- ageism 141
- ages of life xi, 29, 30, 44–5, 51, 52
- African 90
- Aztec 88
- Confucian 20, 22
- Mesopotamian 24
- aging: contemporary 127–46
- and culture 5–6, 10
- demographic xiii, 3–4, 74–8, 97, 107–14, 127, 128–30, 142
- and economics 136
- and environment 123, 133, 141
- and gender 6, 9, 10, 12, 52, 72, 113, 134
- historiography of xi–xv, 3–8
- master narratives of xi–xii
- and politics 141–2
- and property 6, 9, 13, 25
- and space 133, 136
- agriculture 12, 68, 84, 90
- Alborn, Timothy 83
- alcohol 24, 88, 108, 116, 139
- American Civil War 81
- American Revolution 62, 70
- Ames, Herbert Brown 121
- Amoss, Pamela 16–17
- Anglo-Boer War 91
- anthropology and aging xii, 6, 9–15, 16
- Argentina 113, 124
- Aristo...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Section I Theoretical Concerns, “Natural” Aging, and Classical Prescriptions and Representations
- Section II Medieval to Early Modern Transformations
- Section III Transitions to Modernity
- Section IV Modernity and Old Age
- Section V Globalizing, Medicalizing, and Disciplining Old Age
- Index