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Colin Heywood's rich account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War provides a concise and readable synthesis of the extensive literature on childhood. He gives a long-run historical perspective on the key dimensions to childhood, including ideas on the n…
"This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research, and in particular revises and expands the sections on theoretical developments in the 'new social studies of childhood', on medieval conceptions of the child, on parenting and on ch…
In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives an account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time, it takes seriously those places where this process h…