Book 2020

Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

5 readers

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Language: English
Published: 2020

History
Parent and child
Children
Children, history
Europe, history
Social history
Parents et enfants
Histoire

This is an exceptional book. In it, Hugh Cunningham surveys changing concepts of childhood, and the changing experience of being a child, in Europe and North America across five centuries. In so doing he also reviews - and at many points challenges - the recent historiography of the subject.