Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990

by Harry Hendrick and Harry Henderick

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521576245
• ISBN13: 9780521576246
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.7"