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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Age in America. New York : New York University Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014045475 (OCoLC)893452409 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Corinne T Field; Nicholas L Syrett |
ISBN: | 9781479806836 1479806838 9781479840595 1479840599 |
OCLC Number: | 910934045 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America. |
Responsibility: | edited by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett. |
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"Impressive and original,Age in Americais a fascinating collection of scholarship that will find wide readership across many disciplines. Admirable for its chronological scope and focus, the editors have brought together many of the pioneers of age studies as well as childhood studies, resulting in a unique and synthesizing volume that is sure to open up new avenues for further research." -- Howard Chudacoff,author of How Old Are You?: Age Consciousness in American Culture "Age in Americasuccessfully demonstrates a sort of ultimate intersectionality in which age shapes or is shaped by nearly every measure by which historians try to understand the human condition." * Journal of American History * "Many anthologies are quite rightly criticized for lacking focus, conceptual coherence, or uniformly high standards of quality and rigor.Age in Americarebuts such criticism and demonstrates that age is an analytic category that is, in its own way, as important as gender, class and ethnicity in understanding subjective experience, law and public policy over the course of American History." * Patheos * "This volume provides much-needed historical perspective to our understanding of age, including shifts in age consciousness and the categorization, institutionalization, and personal experience of age....Many anthologies are quite rightly criticized for lacking focus, conceptual coherence, or uniformly high standards of quality and rigor.Age in Americarebuts such criticism and demonstrates that age is an analytic category that is, in its own way, as important as gender, class, and ethnicity in understanding subjective experience, law, and public policy over the course of American history." * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * Read more...


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