Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement

by Mathew Thomson

Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199677484
• ISBN13: 9780199677481
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"