Childhood in Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780521685252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Colin Heywood; William Beik; T. C. W. Blanning

Opis

An invaluable introduction to the history of European childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe c.1700-2000.

Recenzje

'Heywood … fills a niche here with an up-to-date survey of childhood across modern Europe. After discussing premodern childhood, Heywood matches changes in childhood in modern Europe to trends of industrialization and the Enlightenment. Industrialization shifted rural children as well as adults to towns, where the children initially worked in factories as they had worked in the fields. Enlightenment thought viewed children as individuals to be respected and nurtured and prompted more-scientific approaches to child development and education - first among newly leisured middle- and upper-class children in the towns but eventually including working-class and rural children, slowly removing them from work and thus extending their childhoods. Rounding out this survey is discussion of the negotiation of childhood's boundaries and the growth of childhood culture, changes in children's material conditions, and fulfilling children's potential. This book is both rich and accessible … Highly recommended.' R. Spickermann, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Childhood in the Villages, Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries: 1. Conceptions of childhood in rural society; 2. Growing up in the villages; 3. Work, education and religion for children in the countryside; Part II. Childhood in the Towns, c.1700–c.1870: 4. Enlightenment and Romanticism; 5. Middle- and upper-class childhoods in the towns, c.1700–1870; 6. The 'lower depths': working-class children in the early industrial town; 7. Work versus school during the Industrial Revolution; Part III. Childhood in an Industrial and Urban Society, c.1870–c.2000: 8. The scientific approach to childhood; 9. Growing up during the twentieth century (1): in the family and on the margins of society; 10. Growing up during the twentieth century (2): light and shade in an affluent society; 11. Work and school in an urban-industrial society; Conclusion.