Children Childhood and English Society 1880 1990

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood child-parent relations social policy schooling leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is disappearing. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the past one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists anthropologists psychologists and children''s rights activists.