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Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden
Av Bengt Sandin
Inbunden, 2020
1467 kr
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In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood. It is a study through the lens of the changes in early modern education, spatial aspect of the life of children and systems of …
Adolescence in Modern Irish History
Av Catherine Cox, Susannah Riordan
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the …
Children and Sexuality
From the Greeks to the Great War
Av G. Rousseau
Inbunden, 2007
1128 kr
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Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.
Thatcher's Grandchildren?
Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century
Av Stephen Wagg, Jane Pilcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed by neo-liberalism. Issues addressed include child protection and abuse, the media, education and …
Children and Sexuality
From the Greeks to the Great War
Av G. Rousseau
Häftad, 2007
1208 kr
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Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.
Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920
Av H. Marland
Inbunden, 2013
569 kr
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This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new …
Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000
Av H. Ellis
Inbunden, 2014
1130 kr
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This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context.
Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England
Av L. Underwood
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained …
Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony
Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895
Av S. Duff
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white …
Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Pete Newbon
Inbunden, 2018
1692 kr
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This book explores the evolution of male writers marked by peculiar traits of childlike immaturity. The ‘Boy-Man’ emerged from the nexus of Rousseau’s counter-Enlightenment cultural primitivism, Sensibility’s ‘Man of Feeling’, the Chattertonian poet maudit, and the Romantic idealisation of …
Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission
Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark
Av K. Vallgårda
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children …
Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in 'Care'
International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2015
508 kr
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This book positions inquiries into the historical abuse of children in care within the context of transitional justice. It examines investigation, apology and redress processes across a range of Western nations to trace the growth of the movement, national particularities and the impact of the work …
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
Av Simon Sleight, Shirleene Robinson
Inbunden, 2015
1580 kr
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Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the …
Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
Av Katie Barclay, Kimberley Reynolds m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
934 kr
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This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Child death was the …
Children and Sexuality
From the Greeks to the Great War
Av G. Rousseau
Häftad, 2012
1130 kr
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Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.
Thatcher's Grandchildren?
Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed by neo-liberalism. Issues addressed include child protection and abuse, the media, education and …
Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920
Av H. Marland
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new …
Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000
Av H. Ellis
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context.
Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England
Av L. Underwood
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained …
Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony
Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895
Av S. Duff
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white …
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission
Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark
Av K. Vallgårda
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children …
Apologies and the Legacy of Abuse of Children in 'Care'
International Perspectives
Häftad, 2015
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book positions inquiries into the historical abuse of children in care within the context of transitional justice. It examines investigation, apology and redress processes across a range of Western nations to trace the growth of the movement, national particularities and the impact of the work …
Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907
Häftad, 2018
288 kr
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This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and …
Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England
Growing up in the Village
Inbunden, 2019
904 kr
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This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land …
Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940
Av Ciara Boylan, Ciara Gallagher
Häftad, 2019
737 kr
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This volume explores how Irish children were ‘constructed’ by various actors including the state, youth organisations, authors and publishers in the period before and after Ireland gained independence in 1922. It examines the broad variety of ways in which the Irish child was constructed through …
Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia
Just Like a Family?
Av Nell Musgrove, Deidre Michell
Häftad, 2018
680 kr
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This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care at the centre of the story, but …
Child Protection in England, 1960–2000
Expertise, Experience, and Emotion
Häftad, 2019
321 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed …
Children’s Voices from the Past
New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1580 kr
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This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and constrained the parameters of youthful lives. Drawing …
Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000
'The Science of the Age'
Av Lynne Curry
Inbunden, 2019
737 kr
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Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents, this book examines the rich historical context in which controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted onto the American scene. It argues that several …
