A history of children : a socio-cultural survey across millennia / A.R. Colón with P.A. Colón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colón, A. R. (Angel Rafael), 1940-

Contributor:

Colón, P. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--History.

Children.

Children, Prehistoric.

Children--Cross-cultural studies.

Children--Social conditions.

Cross-cultural studies.

Child.

Social Conditions--history.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

children (people by age group).

Medical Subjects:

Child.

Social Conditions--history.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 565 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

A history of children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes and societal laws. A recurrent theme in the book is the unchanging, immutable nature of childhood despite epochal and societal differences in birth rituals, education, puberty rituals, inheritance laws, child labor legislation, cultural customs, and historical events that have affected the lives of children over the last 5000 years. Despite the cruelties of infanticide, abandonment, and slavery that continue to have a presence in the modern world, the love and regard for children have not changed drastically. The authors reveal the impact of laws, religions, pedagogues, medicine, advocates, and the rogues of history--plagues, tyrants, wars, superstitions, poverty, and famines--on the lives of children. They paint a composite portrait of the child within the broad swatches of early civilizations, the Classical and Patristic periods, the medieval and Renaissance epochs, the Reformation, Revolutionary periods, and the past century--all with the intent to inform the reader of the past and to prepare for the future.

Contents:

PART ONE: Prehistory: the Turkana boy

Early civilizations: Sumerian school son

Classical civilizations: the Ephebe

Late antiquity and patristic periods: the Oblate

Late civilizations: the Yanacona

Summary and conclusion to Part one

PART TWO: The medieval period: the clergon

The reformation and humanism: the apprentice

Revolutions: the chimney sweep

Modern times: the adolescent

Summary and conclusion to Part two.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-531) and indexes.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Colón, A.R. History of children.

ISBN:

0313315744

9780313315749

OCLC:

44131826