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Childhood in World History

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Childhood in World History book

Childhood in World History

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Childhood in World History book

ByPeter N Stearns
Edition 3rd Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 1 July 2016
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315561363
Pages 200 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315561363
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Stearns, P. N. (2016). Childhood in World History. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315561363

Taking a global look at what the category of childhood has meant from agricultural societies to the present day, Childhood in World History offers a vital overview of this topical field. Through comparative analysis, Peter Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes towards the role of children in society, and how "models" of childhood have developed throughout history. Engaging with issues around children’s role in the family and the involvement of communal, national, educational, and global infrastructures, Stearns unpacks the experience of childhood in the West, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

This expanded and updated third edition includes:

  • updated bibliographies and suggested readings
  • expanded discussions of religion and children’s rights
  • a new chapter on families in developing economies in the early twentieth century
  • broadened discussions of childhood in Japan and in communist countries.

With expanded further reading lists, Stearns’s accessible text not only provides an overview of its field but also offers a research guide for more specialized study. Concisely presented but broad in scope, Stearns’s accessible text guides readers through the transformations of the concept of childhood.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Childhood in World History

chapter 1|12 pages

Childhood in Agricultural Societies

The First Big Changes

chapter 2|17 pages

Childhood in the Classical Civilizations

chapter 3|11 pages

Childhood in Postclassical World History

The Impact of Religious Change

chapter 4|15 pages

Contacts and Contrasts in the Postclassical World

chapter 5|13 pages

Forces of Change and the Modern Model of Childhood

Developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914

chapter 6|10 pages

Alongside the Modern Model

The pressures of colonialism

chapter 7|10 pages

Japan Adapts the New Model

A process of change in asia

chapter 8|12 pages

Childhood and Communist Revolutions

chapter 9|19 pages

Childhood in the Affluent Societies, Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

chapter 10|7 pages

Children in the Developing World

chapter 11|10 pages

The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Children face war and violence

chapter 12|13 pages

Globalization and Childhoods

chapter 13|7 pages

The Dilemma of Children’s Happiness

chapter |10 pages

Conclusion

Childhoods from past toward future
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