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The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction [#589]
The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction [#589]
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  • A wide-ranging, global history of children and youth
  • Investigates the differing experiences of young people across time and place
  • Explores the evolution of a "global childhood" of shared assumptions, experiences, and values
  • Describes how societies perceive the roles of young people in forming and preserving cultural values

 
While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Through the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has varied by gender, class, religion, ethnicity, place, and economic need. As author James Marten explores in this Very Short Introduction, so too have the realities of childhood, each life shaped by factors such as education, expectation, and conflict (or lack thereof). Indeed, ancient Roman children lived very differently than those born of today's Generation Z. 

Experiences of childhood have been shaped in classrooms and on factory floors, in family homes and orphanages, and on battlefields and in front of television sets. In addressing this diversity, The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction takes a global, expansive view of the features of childhood that have shaped childhood throughout history and continue to shape it now. From the rules of Confucian childrearing in twelfth-century China to the struggles of children living as slaves in the Americas or as cotton mill workers in Industrial Age Britain, Marten takes his inspiration from the idea that the lives of children reveal important and sometimes uncomfortable truths about civilization.

Index: 

Introduction 
Chapter One: Traditions
Chapter Two: Revolutions
Chapter Three: The Rise of "Modern" Childhoods
Chapter Four: Creating a Worldview of Childhood
Chapter Five: The Century of the Child and Beyond
References
Further Reading
Index

About the author: 

James Marten is Professor of History at Marquette University, where he has been a faculty member since 1986. A past president of both the Society of Civil War Historians and of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, he is the author or editor of more than fifteen books.

Product details

ISBN : 9780190681388

Author: 
James Marten
Pages
144 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Sep 2018
Series
Very Short Introductions
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The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction [#589]

The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction [#589]

The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction [#589]