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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David G. Troyansky (Professor of History, Professor of History, Brooklyn College & City University of New York Graduate Center)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 22.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780197638750ISBN 10: 0197638759 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 22 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: Career and Retirement 1. Pensions as Favor and Pensions as Right 2. Careering Across the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Divide 3. Setting Rules from Old Regime to Midcentury 4. Restoration, Revolution, and Retirement: Ending Careers, 1814-1853 Part Two: The Language of Retirement 5. Entitlement and Complaint: Creating a Rhetoric of Retirement 6. Changing Content and Expectations 7. Gender, Widowhood, and the Limits of Entitlement Conclusion Notes BibliographyReviewsThis book brilliantly combines archival research with insights from gerontological theory to explain how civil servants in post-Revolutionary France innovated a right to government-funded old-age retirement. This retiring vanguard left a surprisingly rich archive, revealing how they experienced old age. The self-definition of these men and their widows paved the way for twentieth-century concerns about old-age pensions, generational conflict, distributive justice, and the importance of life review. This is a beautiful book that realizes the full potential of crossing disciplinary boundaries between history and gerontology. * Corinne Field, Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia * How did old-age pensions go from a form of charity to a legally recognized right? David Troyansky uses a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century documents to show how French magistrates argued that, even if they had served many of the country's changing regimes, they and their families deserved support when they were too old to work. Troyansky's imaginative research sheds light on issues that are still central in our own societies, with their aging populations. * Jeremy D. Popkin, William T. Bryan Chair of History, University of Kentucky * David Troyansky has written a wonderfully lucid, instructive, and sensitive study that illustrates changing conceptions of the life course, of old age, and of the state's social responsibilities in a time of political turmoil. Based on rich documentation, it sheds fascinating new light on the origins of the modern welfare state. This is a book that will be of great interest to anyone working on the history of modern Europe. * David Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor, Department of History, Princeton University * Author InformationDavid G. Troyansky is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France and Aging in World History as well as numerous articles on the history of old age and aspects of French cultural history. He is co-editor of Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World, The French Revolution in Culture and Society, and a six-volume Cultural History of Old Age. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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