Childhood in world history
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Childhood in world history
（Themes in world history）
Routledge, 2021
4th ed
- : pbk
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Previous edition: 2017
Includes bibliographical references
Index: p. [209]-220
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children.
Through comparative analysis, Peter N. Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes toward the role of children in society, and how "models" of childhood have developed throughout history. He addresses the tension between regional and social/gender differences, on the one hand, and factors that encouraged greater convergence, including the experience of globalization. The book also deals with regional patterns as determined by different religious and cultural systems and family structures. It encourages readers to consider the complexity in evaluating childhood patterns in the past, in light of more modern conditions and expectations, and at the same time to realize some of the problems contemporary children encounter.
This updated and expanded fourth edition includes:
Broadened discussions of childhood in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Additional text on children's play and the impact of immigration
More voices from children throughout
Updated bibliographies and suggested readings
Concisely presented but broad in scope, this book will be of interest to students of world history and those involved in interdisciplinary approaches to childhood.
Table of Contents
0. Introduction 1. Childhood in Agricultural Societies: The First Big Changes 2. Childhood in the Classical Civilizations 3. Childhood in Postclassical World History 4. Changes and Constraints in the Postclassical and Early Modern Centuries, 600-1700 5. Children at Play 6. Childhood in the Industrial Age 7. Forces of Change in Western Society, 1750-1900 8. New Constraints: The Impact of Colonialism 9. The Immigrant Child 10. Japan Adapts the New Model 11. Childhood under Communism 12. Children in the Industrializing World 13. Childhood in the Affluent Societies 14. The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 15. Globalization and Childhoods 16. Conclusion: Patterns and Tensions in Childhood's History
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