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Childhood in world history
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Title
Childhood in world history / Peter N. Stearns.
ISBN
9780415598088 (hardback)
0415598087 (hardback)
9780415598095 (pbk.)
0415598095 (pbk.)
9780203839751 (e book)
0203839757 (e book)
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
x, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2011
Series
Themes in world history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : childhood in world history
Childhood in agricultural societies
Childhood in the classical civilizations
Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change
Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world
Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914
Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism
Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model
Childhood and communist revolutions
Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-1st centuries
The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-1st centuries : children face war and violence
Globalization and childhoods
The dilemma of children's happiness
Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future.
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