210 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text 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 500 years.
Through his engaging narrative Hugh Cunningham tells the story of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the... Read more
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, 1830-1920
7. 'The century of the child?'
8. Conclusion
9. Epilogue: 1995-2020
Biography
Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent.
