- Hardcover: 340 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Feb 23 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521815800
- ISBN-13: 978-0521815802
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,275,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Ottaway's book, however, does serve as a model for how to write a gendered social history... historians of demography, family, society, gender, and, of course, the eighteenth century, will find much in Ottaway's book to interest and instruct them."
-H-Net
"Her book is an important contribution to our understanding of the development of societal attitudes towards the poor and elderly in the Anglo-American world. Its careful use of quantitative and qualitative research techniques is a model of innovative social history."
-John M. Herrick, Michigan State University, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
"The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England is an ambitious and much needed examination of a pivotal century in the history of old age[...]Susannah Ottaway imaginatively employs a varied collection of evidence to address an array of issues...in her admirably successful effort to characterize the construction of aging in this transitional era[....]Her incisive, lucid and multifaceted analysis is an admirable model for putting that call into action and, as such, makes a lasting and important contribution to the field."
-Anne Kugler, Journal of Modern History
"This rich and informative book will be a standard reference and a starting point for future work on aging in the eighteenth century. It is well written and very nicely produced, including a full Bibliography."
-Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Scriblerian
-H-Net
"Her book is an important contribution to our understanding of the development of societal attitudes towards the poor and elderly in the Anglo-American world. Its careful use of quantitative and qualitative research techniques is a model of innovative social history."
-John M. Herrick, Michigan State University, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
"The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England is an ambitious and much needed examination of a pivotal century in the history of old age[...]Susannah Ottaway imaginatively employs a varied collection of evidence to address an array of issues...in her admirably successful effort to characterize the construction of aging in this transitional era[....]Her incisive, lucid and multifaceted analysis is an admirable model for putting that call into action and, as such, makes a lasting and important contribution to the field."
-Anne Kugler, Journal of Modern History
"This rich and informative book will be a standard reference and a starting point for future work on aging in the eighteenth century. It is well written and very nicely produced, including a full Bibliography."
-Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Scriblerian
Book Description
Susannah Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature on the history of ageing with original interpretation and analysis of available data. Using a wide variety of sources (literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries), Ottaway's account of the experiences of the aged reveals attitudes in eighteenth-century England that shed light on contemporary aging issues by historical comparison.
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