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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part I. Age in early America -- Part II. Age in the long nineteenth century -- Part III. Age in modern America. |
| Summary |
"Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives--precise moments when our rights and opportunities change--when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures--from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas--Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship"--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Age -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Age. |
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Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Age -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Age -- Political aspects. |
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Age groups -- United States -- History.
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Age groups. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History.
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Social classes. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History.
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Coming of age -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Coming of age. |
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Aging -- Social aspects. |
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Citizenship -- United States -- History.
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Citizenship. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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Political culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor.
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Syrett, Nicholas L., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Age in America. New York : New York University Press, [2015] 9781479870011 (DLC) 2014045475 (OCoLC)893452409 |
| ISBN |
9781479806836 (electronic book) |
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1479806838 (electronic book) |
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9781479840595 (electronic book) |
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1479840599 (electronic book) |
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9781479870011 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1479870013 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781479831913 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1479831913 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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