The Global History of Childhood Reader

Book Overview

The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. The Reader is structured thematically so as to provide both a representative sampling of the historiography as well as an overview of the key issues of the field, such as childhood as a social construct, commonalities and differences globally, and why the twentieth century was not the "century of the child" for most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415782481
• ISBN13: 9780415782487
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.7"