Childhood in World History

ISBN-13: 9780367752644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Peter N. Stearns

Opis

Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children.

Spis treści

0. Introduction  1. Childhood in Agricultural Societies: The First Big Changes  2. Childhood in the Classical Civilizations  3. Childhood in Postclassical World History  4. Changes and Constraints in the Postclassical and Early Modern Centuries, 600-1700  5. Children at Play  6. Childhood in the Industrial Age  7. Forces of Change in Western Society, 1750-1900  8. New Constraints: The Impact of Colonialism  9. The Immigrant Child  10. Japan Adapts the New Model  11. Childhood under Communism  12. Children in the Industrializing World  13. Childhood in the Affluent Societies  14. The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries  15. Globalization and Childhoods  16. Conclusion: Patterns and Tensions in Childhood’s History

O autorze

Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. He has written and taught widely on subjects in world history and has researched several aspects of the modern history of parenting and childhood. He also serves on the editorial board of the leading journal on childhood history.