In: Routledge studies in modern history
1. Introduction -- 2. Children and childhood in ancient and medieval Europe -- 3. The development of a middle-class ideology of childhood, 1500-1900 -- 4. Family, work and school, 1500-1900 -- 5. Children, philanthropy and the state in Europe, 1500-1860 -- 6. Saving the children, c.1830-c.1920 -- 7. 'The century of the child'? -- 8. Conclusion.
In: Studies in Modern History Ser.
In: Studies In Modern History
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, taking in Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief th
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
In: Studies in modern history
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9781003033165, 9781000093803, 9781000093827, 1000093808, 1000093824, 1003033164, 9781000093841, 1000093840
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