War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars

The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108478530
• ISBN13: 9781108478533
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 9.2"