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Taking a global look at what the category of childhood has meant from agricultural societies to the present day, Childhood in World History offers a vital overview of this topical field. Through comparative analysis, Peter Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes towards the role of children in society, and how "models" of childhood have developed throughout history. Engaging with issues around children’s role in the family and the involvement of communal, national, educational, and global infrastructures, Stearns unpacks the experience of childhood in the West, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This expanded and updated third edition includes: updated bibliographies and suggested readings expanded discussions of religion and children’s rights a new chapter on families in developing economies in the early twentieth century broadened discussions of childhood in Japan and in communist countries. With expanded further reading lists, Stearns’s accessible text not only provides an overview of its field but also offers a research guide for more specialized study. Concisely presented but broad in scope, Stearns’s accessible text guides readers through the transformations of the concept of childhood.

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9781138674301 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, July 5, 2016), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Taking a global look at what the category of childhood has meant from agricultural societies to the present day, Childhood in World History offers a vital overview of this topical field.
9780415352321 | Routledge, March 31, 2006, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Filling a gap in a field with very few teaching books available, Childhood in World History provides a much-needed historical overview.

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9781138674325 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, July 5, 2016), cover price $39.95
9780415352338 | Routledge, January 24, 2006, cover price $29.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203698938 | Routledge, November 18, 2005, cover price $29.95

By Güner Coskunsu (editor)

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9781438458052 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $100.00

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9781438458045 | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2016), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: From losing a loved one to a difficult breakup, each person experiences grief and loss in their own way. This sensitive title explores the grieving process from expected deaths including cancer to sudden loss from accidents or suicide...read more

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9780778722052 | Crabtree Pub Co, February 28, 2015, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: From losing a loved one to a difficult breakup, each person experiences grief and loss in their own way.
9780415082525, titled "Children: Rights and Childhood" | Routledge, July 1, 1993, cover price $33.95 | also contains Children: Rights and Childhood | About this edition: Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life.

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9780778722014 | Crabtree Pub Co, February 28, 2015, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: From losing a loved one to a difficult breakup, each person experiences grief and loss in their own way.

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Product Description: Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication...read more

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9780415724852 | 3 edition (Routledge, December 12, 2014), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights.
9780415305839 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 1, 2004), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights.
9780415082518 | Routledge, July 1, 1993, cover price $123.00 | About this edition: Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life.

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9780415724869 | 3 edition (Routledge, December 12, 2014), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights.
9780415305846 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 1, 2004), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights.
9780415082525 | Routledge, July 1, 1993, cover price $33.95 | also contains Dealing With Loss | About this edition: Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life.

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Product Description: The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. Specifically, author Margaret Y. MacDonald measures the impact of the New Testament's household codes (Colossians 3:18-4:1; Ephesians 5:21-6:9; the Pastoral letters) for understanding the status and role of children in Christian homes and assemblies...read more

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9781481302234 | Baylor Univ Pr, September 15, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world.

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9780324178708, titled "Computer-Assisted Auditing With Great Plains Dynamics" | South-Western Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $120.95 | also contains Computer Assisted Auditing With Great Plains Dynamics | About this edition: This tutorial gives users a real-world audit experience using a market-leading, commercial software package, Great Plains Dynamics.

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Product Description: “A richly integrative, masterful biocultural approach to childhood in the past, in which social science theory and historical, archaeological, and ethnographic details converse with quantitative paleopathology and demography. These studies are an excellent inauguration of a field of study concerned with humanizing the skeletons of a universally vulnerable, resilient, and transcendent class of people...read more
By John J. Crandall (editor)

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9780813049830 | Univ Pr of Florida, May 20, 2014, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: “A richly integrative, masterful biocultural approach to childhood in the past, in which social science theory and historical, archaeological, and ethnographic details converse with quantitative paleopathology and demography.

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Product Description: Although there have been many studies of childhood in Ancient Greece and Rome and in the Middle Ages in the West, there is no such study for the Byzantine world. To fill the gap, this bookreconstructs the most important factors in childhood in Byzantium from the 6th through the 11th century...read more

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9783110265682 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, March 31, 2012, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: Although there have been many studies of childhood in Ancient Greece and Rome and in the Middle Ages in the West, there is no such study for the Byzantine world.

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Product Description: It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An international collection of expert contributors go beyond the usual canon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law, as well as Christian and dream-interpretation literature...read more

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9780415235785 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $145.00

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9780415692533 | Routledge, December 22, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men.

Miscellaneous:

9780203996034 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $138.00

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Product Description: The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between good and bad parenting may have changed across time...read more
By Laurence Brockliss (editor) and Heather Montgomery (editor)

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9781842179789 | Oxbow Books Ltd, December 7, 2010, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world.

By Sandra Cavallo (editor), Silvia Evangelista (editor), Mary Harlow (editor), Ray Laurence (editor) and Louise J. Wilkinson (editor)

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9781845208264 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 15, 2010, cover price $550.00

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Product Description: 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 of the world’s children...read more
By Heidi Morrison (editor)

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9780415782487 | Routledge, June 12, 2012, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood.

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9780415782494 | Routledge, June 12, 2012, cover price $54.95

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Product Description: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives and provides a basis for further study...read more

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9780884023562 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, September 30, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized.

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9780884023982 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, March 10, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized.

What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. André Turmel investigates these transformations both from the perspective of the scientific observation of children (public hygiene, paediatrics, psychology and education) and from a public policy standpoint (child welfare, health policy, education and compulsory schooling). Using detailed historical accounts from Britain, the USA and France, Turmel studies how historical sequential development and statistical reasoning have led to a concept of what constitutes a 'normal' child and resulted in a form of standardization by which we monitor children. He shows how western society has become a child-centred culture and asks whether we continue to base parenting and teaching on a view of children that is no longer appropriate.

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9780521879774 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2008), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: What constitutes a 'normal' child?

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9780521705639 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $54.99

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By Ning De Conick-smith (editor), Paula S. Fass (foreword by), John R. Gillis (contributor) and Marta Gutman (editor)

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9780813541952 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $70.00

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9780813541969 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: This interdisciplinary volume gathers together papers on the history and archaeology of childhood with a wide geographical and chronological remit. There is a broad methodological overview, followed by papers including one on early Bronze Age funerary ritual, one on childhood in the Ancient Near East, papers on prehistoric and Archaic Greece, an overview of research on Roman childhood and a paper on sexual attitudes to slave children, one on early Iceland and one on Anglo-Saxon burial ritual...read more
By Sally Crawford (editor)

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9781407301389 | British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 15, 2007, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary volume gathers together papers on the history and archaeology of childhood with a wide geographical and chronological remit.

Designed for students with a reading age of 11 and 13 years old, this title provides readers with a look at how life as a child has dramatically changed through the ages. It includes real-life photos, and 'What's it like now?' feature that compares children's lives through time so that readers can relate the content to their own lives.

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9781406200836 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 27, 2007), cover price $13.70 | About this edition: Designed for students with a reading age of 11 and 13 years old, this title provides readers with a look at how life as a child has dramatically changed through the ages.

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9781410918697 | Heinemann/Raintree, May 5, 2006, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A history of food eaten by children in the past and a look at the history of children's fashion includes photographs and illustrations from around the world.

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This study presents a picture of childhood in the past, as revealed by archaeology and supplemented by the historical record.

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9780752434629 | Tempus Pub Ltd, October 15, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This study presents a picture of childhood in the past, as revealed by archaeology and supplemented by the historical record.

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Product Description: Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and children was a fundamental element of European society in pre-modern times...read more
By Albrecht Classen (editor)

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9783110184211 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 15, 2005, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and children was a fundamental element of European society in pre-modern times.

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Product Description: This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.  Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, taking in Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time...read more

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9780582238534 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, November 1, 1995, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Cunningham, Hugh

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9780582784536 | 2 edition (Taylor & Francis, April 22, 2005), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
9780582238541 | Longman Pub Group, November 1, 1995, cover price $37.80

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Product Description: Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields―the history of childhood and world history―to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined. The first lecture gauges the impact of the development of agriculture, civilization, and religion upon the premodern experience of childhood...read more

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9781932792287 | Baylor Univ Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields―the history of childhood and world history―to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined.

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Product Description: In 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child. In this enormously influential book, she proposed that the world's children should be the central work of society during the twentieth century. Although she never thought that her "century of the child" would become a reality, in fact it had much more resonance than she could have imagined...read more
By Willem Koops (editor) and Michael Zuckerman (editor)

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9780812237047 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 24, 2003, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child.

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Product Description: This tutorial gives users a real-world audit experience using a market-leading, commercial software package, Great Plains Dynamics. Great Plains Dynamics software, provided with the text, is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system that offers users a variety of modules, including electronic commerce and multi-currency applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780324160796 | Pap/cdr edition (South-Western Pub, May 1, 2002), cover price $46.95 | also contains Clear and Present Danger: Schenck V. United States | About this edition: This tutorial gives users a real-world audit experience using a market-leading, commercial software package, Great Plains Dynamics.
9780324178708, titled "Computer-Assisted Auditing With Great Plains Dynamics" | South-Western Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $120.95 | also contains The Power of Children: The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-roman World | About this edition: This tutorial gives users a real-world audit experience using a market-leading, commercial software package, Great Plains Dynamics.

What part has religion played in the history of child-rearing? How do we persuade children to behave rationally and how should we exercise adult authority? What use do we make of their innocence and how do we cope with their sexuality? Has history left us with ideas about the child which make no sense in the prevailing conditions of the late twentieth century? In Shaping Childhood these questions are explored through themes from the history of childhood. The myth of the repressive Puritan parent is explored by looking at Puritan ideals of child-rearing. Treating the child as if it were rational seemed to Locke the best way to approach child-rearing, but Rousseau was sceptical of adult manipulation and Romanticism could be subversive of both religion and reason as sources of discipline in child-rearing. The Victorians inherited many of the contradictions these approaches gave rise to, and they added a complication of their own through an aesthetic response to childhood's beauty. Currently, with instability in household formation and with the child exposed to ever more sophisticated means of communication, parents, teachers and others struggle to make sense of this ambiguous historical legacy. Shaping Childhood examines the ways in which broad cultural forces such as religion, literature and mass consumption influence contemporary parenting and locates child professionals, within the context of these forces.
By Roger Cox (editor)

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9780415110440 | Routledge, December 1, 1996, cover price $210.00 | About this edition: What part has religion played in the history of child-rearing?

Miscellaneous:

9780203215920 | Routledge, January 31, 2002, cover price $200.00

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