The Global History of Childhood Reader

Herausgeber: Morrison, Heidi

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. The Reader is structured thematically so as to provide both a representative sampling of the historiography as well as an overview of the key issues of the field, such as childhood as a social construct, commonalities and differences globally, and why the twentieth century was not the "century of the child" for most of the world's children. The Reader is divided into four parts: Theories and methodologies of the history of childhood Constructions of childhood in different times and places Children's experiences in different times and places Usage of the past to articulate solutions to problems facing children today. Topics covered include theories and methodologies in the global history of childhood, sources for writing a global history of childhood, education, gender, disability, race, class and religion, the individual in history and emotions, violence, labour and illiteracy. With introductions that contextualize each of the four parts and the articles, further reading sections and questions; this is the perfect guide for all students of the history of childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Readers in History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9780415782494
• ISBN-10: 041578249X
• Artikelnr.: 32302258

Autorenporträt

Heidi Morrison

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Prologue Heidi Morrison. PART 1. Introduction. 1. The
Discovery of Childhood" Philippe Ariès 2. Re-visioning Women and Social
Change: Where are the Children? Barrie Thorne 3. Bastardy in South Germany:
A Comment. Edward Shorter 4. Historical Perspectives on Illegitimacy and
Illegitimates in Latin America. Nara Milanich 5. TheSun Match Boy and Plant
Metaphors: A Swedish Image of a 20th-Century Childhood. Karin Aronsson and
Bengt Sandin 6. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China, 800 to
1700 Pei-Yu Wu 7. Infants, Children and Death in Medieval Muslim Society
Avner Giladi 8. Introduction. Martha Saxton 9. Integrative Summary Irving
Sigel PART 2. Introduction. 1. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran
Afsaneh Najmabadi 2. Children in Chains: Juvenile Convicts Jan Kociumbas
3. African American Childhood Joseph Illick 4. Children and Childhood in
World Religions Don Browning and Marcia Bunge 5. A History of Childhood and
Disability Elizabeth Safford and Philip Safford 6. Invisible Hands: Child
Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe. Beverly Grier 7., Emphasizing the
Islamic: Modifying the Curriculum of Late Ottoman State Schools Benjamin
Fortna 8. Globalisation and Childhoods Peter Stearns PART 3.
Introduction.1. A Most Remarkable Phenomenon: Growing Up Métis - Fur
Traders' Children in the Pacific Northwest Juliet Pollard 2. Growing Up
Poor: Home, Street, and School in London 1870-1914 Anna Davin 3. Thank you
for the Wonderful Book: Soviet Child Readers and the Management of
Children's Reading Catriona Kelly 4. Childhood and Child Labor in the
British Industrial Revolution Jane Humphries PART 4. Introduction. 1. The
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 2. Children and Childhood in
Western Society Since 1500 Hugh Cunningham 3. Children and the Politics of
Culture in "Late Capitalism" Sharon Stephens 4. Lessons from the history of
education for a 'century of the child at risk Ingrid Lohmann and Christine
Mayer 5. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood and Social Reform in
Early Twentieth Century Japan Kathleen Uno 6. From Full-Time to Part-Time:
Working Children in Norway from the nineteenth to the twentieth century
Ellen Schrumpf 7. Statutory Rape Prosecutions in California Mary E Odem 8.
The Disappearing Child Neil Postman