Childhood in Modern Europe: 56 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 56)
Cambridge University Press, 9/6/2018
EAN 9780521685252, ISBN10: 0521685257
Paperback, 296 pages, 21.3 x 17.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
This invaluable introduction to the history of childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe between c.1700 and 2000 seeks to give a voice to children as well as adults, wherever possible. The work is divided into three parts, covering in turn, childhood in rural village societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; in the towns during the Industrial Revolution period (c.1750–1870); and in society generally during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each part has a succinct introduction to a number of key topics, such as conceptions of childhood; infant and child mortality; the material conditions of children; their cultural life; the welfare facilities available to them from charities and the state; and the balance of work and schooling. Combining a chronological with a thematic approach, this book will be of particular interest to students and academics in a number of disciplines, including history, sociology, anthropology, geography, literature and education.
Introduction
Part I. Childhood in the Villages, Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries
1. Conceptions of childhood in rural society
2. Growing up in the villages
3. Work, education and religion for children in the countryside
Part II. Childhood in the Towns, c.1700–c.1870
4. Enlightenment and Romanticism
5. Middle- and upper-class childhoods in the towns, c.1700–1870
6. The 'lower depths'
working-class children in the early industrial town
7. Work versus school during the Industrial Revolution
Part III. Childhood in an Industrial and Urban Society, c.1870–c.2000
8. The scientific approach to childhood
9. Growing up during the twentieth century (1)
in the family and on the margins of society
10. Growing up during the twentieth century (2)
light and shade in an affluent society
11. Work and school in an urban-industrial society
Conclusion.