The Routledge history of childhood in the western world / edited by Paula S. Fass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fass, Paula S.

Taylor and Francis eBooks.

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge histories

The Routledge histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Western countries--History.

Children.

History.

Western countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 531 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood and the life of children in the West from antiquity to the present day, and explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this field. It addresses such issues as family, work, law, sexuality, and consumption as they relate to the childhood experience.

Contents:

Is there a story in the history of childhood? / Paula S. Fass

Images of childhood in classical antiquity / Keith Bradley

Children in Judaism and Christianity / Margaret L. King

Childhood in medieval and early modern times / Joanne M. Ferraro

Childhood and the Enlightenment / Larry Wolff

Parent-child relations in Western Europe and North America, 1500-present / Julia Grant

Children's work in countryside and city / Colin Heywood

Children and war / James Marten

Childhood emotions in modern Western history / Peter N. Stearns

Children and the state / James Schmidt

The vexed history of children and sex / Beth Bailey

Age, schooling, and development / Stephen Lassode

Making adolescence more or less modern / Don Romesburg

The physical spaces of childhood / Mart Gutman

Play, games, and toys / Gary Cross

Children as consumers: history and historiography / Daniel Thomas Cook

Picturing childhood in the modern West / Anne Higonnet

Children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva

Children in North American slavery / Steven Mintz

Mixed-race children in the American West: conquest and its categories / Anne F. Hyde

Infanticide, abortion, children, and childhood in Sweden, 1000-1980 / Bengt Sandin

Social welfare in the Western world and the rights of children / Ivan Jablonka

Children as vagrants, vagabonds, and thieves in nineteenth-century America / Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Children in scouting and other organizations / Jay Mechling

New opportunities for children in the Great Depression in the United States / Kriste Lindenmeyer

Childhood and youth in Nazi Germany / Dirk Schumann

International child saving / Dominique Marshall

Latin American childhoods and the concept of modernity / Nara Milanich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge history of childhood in the western world.

ISBN:

9781135121709

1135121702

OCLC:

827947099

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.