Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990 (Hardcover, New)

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is 'disappearing'. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and children's rights activists. Thus he successfully shows how much of our 'modern' understanding of childhood and of children results from both an historical and a social scientific understanding.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Studies in Economic and Social History
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Harry Hendrick
Dimensions:	234 x 147 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-57253-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-521-57253-3
Barcode:	9780521572538

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