| Description |
xv, 478 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge readers in history |
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Routledge readers in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. What is the global history of childhood. The discovery of childhood / Philippe Ariès -- Re-visioning women and social change : where are the children? / Barrie Thorne -- Bastardy in South Germany : a comment / Edward Shorter -- Historical perspectives on illegitimacy and illegitimates in Latin America / Nara Milanich -- The sun match boy and plant metaphors : a Swedish image of a 20th-century childhood / Karin Aronsson and Bengt Sandin -- Childhood remembered : parents and children in China, 800 to 1700 / Pei-yi Wu -- Infants, children and death in medieval Muslim society / Avner Gil'adi -- Introduction to the first volume of the Journal of the history of childhood and youth / Martha Saxton -- Integrative summary / Irving E. Sigel -- Part 2. A social construct : childhood in different times and places. Crafting an educated housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Children in chains : juvenile convicts / Jan Kociumbas -- African American childhood / Joseph E. Illick -- Introduction to Children and childhood in world religions / Don Browning and Marcia Bunge -- Dimensions of a "new history" / Elizabeth Safford and Philip Safford -- Struggles over African childhood : child and adolescent labor, 1890-1920s / Beverly Carolease Grier -- Emphasizing the Islamic : modifying the curriculum of late Ottoman state schools / Benjamin C. Fortna -- Globalization and childhoods / Peter Stearns -- |
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Part 3. Children's experiences. A most remarkable phenomenon : growing up métis : fur traders' children in the Pacific Northwest / Juliet Pollard -- Needed at home / Anna Davin -- "Thank you for the wonderful book" : Soviet child readers and the management of children's reading, 1950-75 / Catriona Kelly -- Starting work / Jane Humphries -- Part 4. Use of the past to articulate solutions to problems facing children today. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Saving the children, c.1830-c.1920 / Hugh Cunningham -- Children and the politics of culture in "late capitalism" / Sharon Stephens -- Lessons from the history of education for a "century of the child at risk" / Ingrid Lohmann and Christine Mayer -- Child-rearing in the nineteenth century / Kathleen S. Uno -- From full-time to part-time : working children in Norway from the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Ellen Schrumpf -- Statutory rape prosecutions in California / Mary E. Odem -- The disappearing child / Neil Postman. |
| Subject |
Children -- History.
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Children -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Morrison, Heidi.
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| ISBN |
9780415782487 alkaline paper |
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0415782481 alkaline paper |
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9780415782494 alkaline paper |
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041578249X alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
40021126458 |
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