Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City traces the transformations that occurred between 1934 and 1968 in Mexico through the lens of childhood. The history of childhood has been dominated by historians of Western Europe and the United States. Eileen Ford corrects this geographical dominance by illuminating the experiences of children in Latin America.

Ford uses a wealth of fascinating primary sources, ranging from oral histories to photojournalism, to reconstruct the reality of childhood in Mexico City during a period of changing global attitudes towards childhood and...