Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

by Hugh Cunningham

Book Overview

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 present, revealing considerable differences in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367470624
• ISBN13: 9780367470623
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"