History of Old Age

By Georges Minois

Book Overview

This book is the first major study of the ways in which old age was perceived in Western culture and society. Beginning from ancient Palestine and Classical Greece, Minois traces the changing conceptions of the nature, value and burden of the old.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745662137
• ISBN13: 9780745662138
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"