Stearns, Peter N. <br/><br/>
Childhood in world history / 
Peter N. Stearns. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - London ;  New York, NY :  Routledge,  2011. 
 - x, 179 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Themes in world history .
 - Themes in world history. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : childhood in world history -- Childhood in agricultural societies -- Childhood in the classical civilizations -- Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change -- Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world -- Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914 -- Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism -- Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model -- Childhood and communist revolutions -- Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-1st centuries -- The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-1st centuries : children face war and violence -- Globalization and childhoods -- The dilemma of children's happiness -- Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415598088 (hardback) 0415598087 (hardback) 9780415598095 (pbk.) 0415598095 (pbk.) 9780203839751 (e book) 0203839757 (e book) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010018691 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB086072  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015605631  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children--History.<br/>Children--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ 767.87  / .S73 2011