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Preface

Part One

Chapter 1: Necessary Knowledge: Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past

Part Two

Chapter 2:Elderly Persons and Members of their Households in England

Chapter 3:The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family

Chapter 4:Household Systems and The Lives of the Old in 18th and 19th Century

Chapter 5:Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe

Chapter 6:Older Lives on the Frontier:the Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910

Chapter 7:A Home of One's Own:Aging and Home Ownership in the In the United States in the Late 19th and early Century

Part Three

Chapter 8:The Impact of Widowhood in 19th Centuray ,Italy

Chapter 9: The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire

Chapter 10:Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States

Part Four

Chapter 11: The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 12:Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935: Evidence from Railroad Pensions

Part Five

Chapter 13: Toward a Historical Demography of Aging

Notes