Children and childhood in western society since 1500 / Hugh Cunningham.

By:

Cunningham, Hugh

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in modern history | Studies in modern historyPublication details: Harlow : Pearson/Longman, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: ix, 238 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780582784536 (pbk.) :
0582784530

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.23091821 CUN

LOC classification:

HQ767.87 .C86 2005

Contents:

1.Introduction: The historiography of childhood -- 2.Children and childhood in ancient and medieval Europe -- 3.The development of a middle-class ideology of childhood, 1500-1900 -- 4.Family, work and shool, 1500-1900 -- 5.Children, philanthropy and the state in Europe, 1500-1860 -- 6.Saving the children, c.1830- c.1920 -- 7.\'The century of the child\'? -- 8.Conclusion.

Summary: Hugh Cunningham surveys changing concepts of childhood, and the changing experience of being a child, in Europe and North America across five centuries. In so doing he reviews - and at many points challenges - the recent historiography of the subject.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	305.23091821 CUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		216776

Previous ed.: London: Longman, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-226) and index.

Hugh Cunningham surveys changing concepts of childhood, and the changing experience of being a child, in Europe and North America across five centuries. In so doing he reviews - and at many points challenges - the recent historiography of the subject.