Children and childhood in western society since 1500 / Hugh Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunningham, Hugh.

Series:

Studies in modern history (Longman (Firm))

Studies in modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--History.

Children.

History.

Parent and child--History.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

ix, 238 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2005.

Summary:

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries.

For undergraduate courses in History of the Family, European Social History, History of Children and Gender History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0582784530

OCLC:

56755967