Childhood in world history
By: Peter N. Stearns.
Series: Themes in world history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Children -- History.; Children -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood in world history; title: Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes; title: Childhood in the classical civilizations; title: Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change; title: Debating childhood in the premodern West; title: Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the West, 18th century to1914; title: Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism; title: Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model; title: Childhood and communist revolutions; title: Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries; title: The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence; title: Globalization and childhoods; title: Childhoods from past toward future.