Product Description: In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different ways in which people have thought about childhood as a stage of life, the relationships of children with their families and peers, and the experiences of young people at work, in school and at the hands of various welfare institutions...read more

Product Description: A History of Children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws. A recurrent theme in the book is the unchanging, immutable nature of childhood despite epochal and societal differences in birth rituals, education, puberty rituals, inheritance laws, child labor legislation, cultural customs, and historical events that have affected the lives of children over the last 5000 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask:* what is the relationship between children and the material world?* how does the material culture of children vary across time and space?* how can we access the actions and identities of children in the material record?The collection spans the Palaeolithic to the late twentieth century, and uses data from across Europe, Scandinavia, the Americas and Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Like Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood, this history of child rearing shows how the treatment of children holds the key to a society's success or failure and draws implications

Product Description: Strange, deformed, and piercingly beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. No child at all, but a figment of Goethe's fiction, Mignon appeared and reappeared in countless forms and guises over the next century...read more

Product Description: 'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear review of the information on childhood contained in such sources as diaries and autobiographies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows the paths by which the child has moved from social obscurity to the near adoration he enjoys in America today, examining attitudes toward children from prehistoric times through each era of Western civilization