Title: Children and childhood in western society since 1500
First published: 1995
Description: This is an exceptional book. In it, Hugh Cunningham surveys changing concepts of childhood, and the changing experience of being a child, in Europe and North America across five centuries. In so doing he also reviews - and at many points challenges - the recent historiography of the subject.
Subjects: History, Parent and child, Children, Children, history, Europe, history, Social history, Parents et enfants, Histoire, General, History, modern 1601-, Family, Child welfare, Child rearing, History, 16th century, Child, Children--history, Parent and child--history, History, 16th century--united states, Child rearing--history, Child rearing--united states--history, Child welfare--united states, Family--united states, History, modern 1601---united states, Hq767.87 .c86 2005, 2005 h-991, Hq 767.87 c973 2005, 305.23/09182/1, Parent-Child Relations