Growing Up
Subtitle: The History of Childhood in a Global Context (Edmondson Lecture Series)
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: January 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9781932792287
Subjects: Children; Social history; History - General History; History; History: World; Children's Studies; World - General; United States; History / World; Social Science-Children's Studies
First sentence: Childhood in world history requires a general introduction, but there is risk of too much abstraction early on: so first, a few vignettes, all drawn at least in part from childhood in the agricultural period of the human experience, which is the specific topic of this first paper.
Description: "Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields-the history of childhood and world history-to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined. The first lecture gauges the impact of the development of agriculture, civilization, and religion upon the premodern experience of childhood. The second lecture contrasts modern perspectives on childhood with more traditional ones before investigating how and why modern perspectives developed and spread. These lectures clearly demonstrate that the transformation of childhood is both recent and sweep." -- Publisher's description.