Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880–1990 - Rilegato

Hendrick, Harry

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ISBN 10: 0521572533 ISBN 13: 9780521572538

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Riassunto

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 the 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 account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and children's rights activists. Thus he successfully shows how much of our 'modern' understanding of childhood and of children results from both an historical and a social scientific understanding.

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Recensione:

"This book provides an overview of the current literature on the history of children and childhood in modern England ...the book does provide considerable insight into the recent scholarship on childhood in England." Canadian Journal of History

Descrizione del libro:

This study combines historical research with that of social scientists to produce a concise and reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. It will be essential reading for students of social history, education, sociology and social policy.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521572533
• ISBN 13: 9780521572538
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128