Prime Time: A History of the Middle Aged in Twentieth-Century Britain

by John Benson

Numerous studies consider the history of childhood, adolescence and old age, yet the middle aged, consistently the most productive and powerful of age groups have been consistently ignored. In this pioneering study John Benson considers how perceptions and experience of middle age have changed, and how its power-base has diminished, affected by the steady ageing of the population the increasing independence of the yound and growing economic insecurity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582256577
• ISBN13: 9780582256576
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"