| Aging in the Past |
| PREFACE |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
 | PART ONE INTRODUCTION |
 | One Necessary Knowledge: Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past |
| PART TWO LIVING ARRANGEMENTS |
| Two Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present |
| Three The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family: La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation |
| Four Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary |
| Five Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe |
| Six Older Lives on the Frontier: the Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910 |
| Seven A Home of One's Own: Aging and Home Ownership in the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century |
| PART THREE WIDOWHOOD |
| Eight The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy |
| Nine The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire |
| Ten Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States |
| PART FOUR RETIREMENT AND MORTALITY |
| Eleven The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century |
| Twelve Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935: Evidence from Railroad Pensions |
| PART FIVE CONCLUSION |
| Thirteen Toward a Historical Demography of Aging |
| Notes |
| INDEX |