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The journey of life
— a cultural history of aging in America | | Author(s) | Thomas R Cole |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992 |
| Pages | 260 pp |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Cultural activities ; Literature ; Histories ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This book aims to be both a cultural history of ageing and a contribution to public debate about the meaning and significance of later life. It shows how Northern middle-class culture, first in Europe and then in the United States (US), created and sustained specifically modern images of the life course between the reformation and World War I. During this period older age was redefined as a scientific problem, as in the literature of gerontology and geriatrics. The author explores how postmodern culture has started to recover the spiritual dimensions of later life, and looks at the new opportunities for growth in an ageing society. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-920204011 B |
| Classmark | BG: H4: HK: 6A: 7T |
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