Forgotten Children

Name: Forgotten Children
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521271332
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Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900

Автор: Linda A. Pollock

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thou...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Linda A. Pollock

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1983

страници

352

EAN

9780521271332

ISBN

0521271339

Enbook ID

02026122

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

Размери

153 x 228 x 21

Пълно описание

'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.' Dr Pollock's statement in her Preface will startle readers who have not questioned the validity of recent theories on the evolution of childhood and the treatment of children, theories which see a movement from a situation where the concept of childhood was almost absent, and children were cruelly treated, to our present western recognition that children are different and should be treated with love and affection. Linda examines this thesis particularly through the close and careful analysis of some hundreds of English and American primary sources. Through these sources, she has been able to reconstruct, probably for the first time, a genuine picture of childhood in the past, and it is a much more humane and optimistic picture than the current stereotype. Her book contains a mass of novel and original material on child-rearing practices and the relations of parents and children, and sets this in the wider framework of developmental psychology, socio-biology and social anthropology. Forgotten Children admirably fulfils the aim of its author. In the face of this scholarly and elegant account of the continuity of parental care, few will now be able to argue for dramatic transformations in the twentieth century.

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