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Childhood in world history
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Title
Childhood in world history / Peter N. Stearns.
ISBN
0415352320 (hbk.)
0415352339 (pbk.)
Published
New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : childhood in world history
Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes
Childhood in the classical civilizations
Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change
Debating childhood in the premodern west
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, twentieh and twenty-first centuries
The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence
Globalization and childhoods
Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future.
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