Childhood in world history/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London:
Routledge,
2011
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Themes in world history
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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
- Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model
- Childhood and communist revolutions
- Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieh and twenty-first centuries
- 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