Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500An exceptional book in which Hugh Cunningham surveys the changing concepts of childhood and the changing experience of being a child, in Europe and North America across five centuries. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Children and Childhood in Ancient and Medieval Europe | 19 |
The Development of a Middleclass Ideology | 41 |
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