Childhood in world history

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Taking a global look at what the category of childhood has meant from agricultural societies to the present day, Childhood in World History offers a vital overview of this topical field. Through comparative analysis, Peter Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes towards the role of children in society, and how "models" of childhood have developed throughout history. Engaging with issues around children’s role in the family and the involvement of communa…

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Full title :Childhood in world history / Peter N. Stearns.

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Publication Date:2017.
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 188 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138674301, 1138674303, 9781138674325, 113867432X, 1315561360, 9781315561363
oclc:ocn933386147
LC Classification:HQ767.87
Dewey Decimal:305.2309

Introduction: Childhood in world history -- Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes -- Childhood in the classical civilizations -- Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change -- Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world -- Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the West, eighteenth century to 1914 -- Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism -- Japan adapts the new model : a process of change in Asia -- Childhood and communist revolutions -- Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Children in the developing world -- The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence -- Globalization and childhoods -- The dilemma of children's happiness -- Conclusion: Childhoods from past toward future.