Anthony Fletcher, Stephen Hussey

Childhood in question

Children, parents and the state

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience, drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780719053948
• ISBN-10: 0719053943
• Artikelnr.: 21403946

Autorenporträt

Anthony Fletcher is Professor of History at the University of Essex. Stephen Hussey is Essex County Lecturer in History at the University of Essex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: What is a child? Anna Davin Chapter 2: Children's
deaths in the seventeenth century. Ralph Houlbrooke. Chapter 3: Silent
witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early
modern England. Chapter 4: 'A denial of innocence': Female juvenile victims
of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century. Chapter 5:
Home, play and street life: Causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime
in the early nineteenth century. Heather Shore Chapter 6: Parental-child
separation and colonial careers: The Talbot family correspondence in the
1880s and 1890s. Elizabeth Buettner. Chapter 7: Family, community and the
regulation of child sex abuse: London 1870-1914. Louise Jackson. Chapter 8:
Homeless, destitute and neglected: Children's experience of welfare in
modern Scotland. Lynn Abrams.