Children and childhood in western society since 1500
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Children and childhood in western society since 1500
（Studies in modern history）
Pearson Longman, 2005
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-226) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries.
For undergraduate courses in History of the Family, European Social History, History of Children and Gender History.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Children and Childhood in Ancient and Medieval Europe
The Development of a Middle-class Ideology of Childhood, 1500-1900
Family, Work and School, 1500-1900
Children, Philanthropy and the State in Europe, 1500-1860
Saving the Children, 1830-1920
'The Century of the Child?'
Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
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