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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    09 October 1997
    ISBN:
    9781139171175
    9780521572538
    9780521576246
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171175
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.262kg, 128 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.19kg, 128 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Twentieth Century British History, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    New Studies in Economic and Social History (32)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Twentieth Century British History, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    New Studies in Economic and Social History (32)
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    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.

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    "This book provides an overview of the current literature on the history of children and childhood in modern England ...the book does provide considerable insight into the recent scholarship on childhood in England." Canadian Journal of History

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