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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunningham, Hugh, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--History.

Children.

History.

Parent and child--History.

Parent and child.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 196 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

The historiography of childhood

2. Children And Childhood In Ancient And Medieval Europe

The classical inheritance

Christianity

The Middle Ages

3. The Development Of A Middle-Class Ideology Of Childhood, 1500

1900

Humanism

Protestantism

Catholicism

The eighteenth century

The influence of Romanticism

4. Family, Work And School, 1500

The peasant family

Proto-industrialisation

Industrialisation

Demography

Community

Schooling

Interest and emotion

5. Children, Philanthropy And The State In Europe, 1500

1860

Children and poverty

1750

6. Saving The Children, c.1830

c.1920

Child labour

Street children

Cruelty to children

Philanthropy, the state and children

State concerns and children's rights

7. `The Century Of The Child'?

Science, experts and childhood

Children and social policy

Parents and children

Childhood under threat

8. Conclusion

9. Epilogue: 1995

2020.

Notes:

Previous edition: Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367470661

0367470667

9780367470623

0367470624

OCLC:

1179944807