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Chilhood in World history

Stearns Peter N

Chilhood in World history - London Routledge 2011 - 179p ix

Contents:
Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes;
Childhood in the classical civilizations;
Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change;
Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world;
Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the West, eighteenth century to 1914;
Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism;
Japan adapts the new model : a process of change in Asia;
Childhood and communist revolutions;
Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
Children in the developing world;
The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence;
Globalization and childhoods;
The dilemma of children's happiness.

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1. Children - History 2. Children - Social Condition

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