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HISTORY AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: DIVERGENT PATHS IN THE STUDY OF AGEING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2002

Chris Phillipson
Chris Phillipson
Affiliation:
Centre for Social Gerontology, Keele University.
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Abstract

Pat Thane. Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. 536 pp. £25.00 ISBN 0-19-820382-9.

John Macnicol. The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. 425 pp, £47.50, ISBN 0-52162273- 5.

Research on the history of old age has been an important area of scholarship in gerontology over the past two decades. From the impetus provided by Laslett's work in the 1960s and 1970s, historical research had opened out by the 1980s into what Stearns and Van Tassel viewed as a ‘promising and provocative subfield of social history’ (1986: ix).

Type
Review Article
Information
Ageing & Society , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , July 2001 , pp. 507 - 522
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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