ABSTRACT
The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction Is there a story in the history of childhood?
part |2 pages
Part I Childhood in the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe
chapter |22 pages
Images of childhood in classical antiquity
chapter |22 pages
Children in Judaism and Christianity
chapter |17 pages
Childhood in medieval and early modern times
chapter |23 pages
Childhood and the Enlightenment
part |2 pages
Part II Creating childhoods in the Western World since 1500
chapter |17 pages
Children’s work in countryside and city
chapter |16 pages
Children and war
chapter |16 pages
Childhood emotions in modern Western history
chapter |17 pages
Children and the state
chapter |20 pages
The vexed history of children and sex
chapter |18 pages
Age, schooling, and development
chapter |20 pages
Making adolescence more or less modern
chapter |18 pages
The physical spaces of childhood
chapter |16 pages
Play, games, and toys
chapter |13 pages
Children as consumers: history and historiography
chapter |17 pages
Picturing childhood in the modern West
chapter |16 pages
Children’s literature
part |2 pages
Part III Special children at special times or places