Childhood in world history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stearns, Peter N.
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Themes in world history.
Subjects:
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.