Day nurseries & childcare in Europe, 1800-1939
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Day nurseries & childcare in Europe, 1800-1939
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Day nurseries and childcare in Europe, 1800-1939
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-334) and index
"This work is a revised version of Per una storia dell'asilo nido in Europa, first pubished in the series “Storia delle Istituzioni Educative e della Letteratura per l'Infanzia", edited by Anna Ascenzi and Dorena Caroli: Università degli Studi di Macerata (Italy), Milan, Franco Angeli, pp. 380."--p. vii
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This book traces the birth and evolution of the creche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different from what we know today. These institutions had the two-fold goal of combatting the two phenomena that had for centuries characterised the history of infancy - infant mortality and the abandonment of babies. Drawing on a wealth of printed sources and in the light of the most recent and authoritative historical investigations, Dorena Caroli discusses the origins of the first creche, established in Paris in 1844 by Firmin Marbeau, going on to compare and contrast the reception of the French model of care and assistance for babies and infants in a number of different European countries - England, Germany, Russia and Italy. This book fills a significant lacuna in the studies of infant history and the educational institutions designed for infants, providing a clear and broad picture not only of the practices followed but also of the evolution of "puericulture" and medical theories about very young children held in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It represents not only a valuable contribution to the history of these institutions but also a useful manual for students in the field of infant care.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Birth and Spread of Creches in France between The Second Republic and The Second World War.- Chapter 2. The Spread of Day Nurseries in England.- Chapter 3. Dissemination of Creches in Germany by the Prussian Empire to National Socialism.- Chapter 4. Dissemination of Creches in Czarist and Soviet Russia.- Chapter 5. The Rise of Creches from The Restoration to the Unification of Italy.- Chapter 6. The Development of the Creches by Crispi's Law until Fascism.
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