Childhood in world history /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Themes in world history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of 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
- 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
- Japan adapts the new model : a process of change in Asia
- Childhood and communist revolutions
- Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Children in the developing world
- The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence
- Globalization and childhoods
- The dilemma of children's happiness
- Conclusion: Childhoods from past toward future.