Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Children
ISBN :
Centuries of Childhood
Philippe Ariès
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Centuries of Childhood
Philippe Ariès
Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
In this book, Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century.
Medieval Children
Nicholas Orme
Author : Nicholas Orme
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300097542
Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
Centuries of Childhood
Philippe Aries
Author : Philippe Aries
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
In this pioneering book, now regarded as a hugely influential and classic study, Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century."
An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
Eva-Marie Prag
Author : Eva-Marie Prag
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0429939817
A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that ‘childhood,’ as we understand it today – a special time that requires special efforts and resources – is an invention of the 19th century, and that before that date children were in effect thought of as small adults. This led him to a re-evaluation of sources that suggested a second, crucial, conclusion: the idea that these competing visions of childhood were the products of two very different conceptions of human society. An earlier, essentially communal, social ideal, Aries wrote, had been supplanted by a society far more family-centric and hence inward-facing. In his view, moreover, this increased focus on childhood posed a direct challenge to a well-entrenched social order. ‘One is tempted to conclude,’ he wrote, ‘that sociability and the concept of the family were incompatible, and could develop only at each other's expense.’ This revolutionary thesis, which has inspired and infuriated other historians in roughly equal measure, was made possible by Aries's determination to understand the meaning of the evidence available to him and highlight problems of definition that others had simply glossed over, making Centuries of Childhood an important example of the critical thinking skill of interpretation.
Centuries of Child Labour
Marjatta Rahikainen
Author : Marjatta Rahikainen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351952889
Centuries of Child Labour argues that some of the conventional wisdom on child labour can be qualified, and even questioned, if we turn from the experiences of leading 19th century countries, such as Britain and France, to economically and politically weaker countries of Northern Europe. Taking a long term perspective, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Marjatta Rahikainen conveys a richer sense of child labour, by comparing the experiences of the Northern European (Scandinavian) periphery to the paradigmatic cases of Britain and France.
Huck’s Raft
Steven Mintz
Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674736478
Like Huck’s raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child’s and the adult’s tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children’s lives through history—the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death—he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves. Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom—like the daring adventure on Huck’s raft.
Turn of the Century
Ellen Jackson
Author : Ellen Jackson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time.
American Childhood
Anne Scott MacLeod
Author : Anne Scott MacLeod
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820318035
In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children or adolescents--stories set more or less in the time of their publication. Some essays also draw creatively on childhood memoirs, travel writings that contain foreigners' observations of American children, and other studies of children's literature. The topics on which MacLeod writes range from the current politicized marketplace for children's books, to the reestablishment (and reconfiguration) of the family in recent children's fiction, to the ways that literature challenges or enforces the idealization of children. MacLeod sometimes considers a single author's canon, as when she discusses the feminism of the Nancy Drew mystery series or the Orwellian vision of Robert Cormier. At other times, she looks at a variety of works within a particular period, for example, Jacksonian America, the post-World War II decade, or the 1970s. MacLeod also examines books that were once immensely popular but currently have no appreciable readership--the Horatio Alger stories, for example--and finds fresh, intriguing ways to view the work of such well-known writers as Louisa May Alcott, Beverly Cleary, and Paul Zindel.
Centuries of Childhood
Philippe Ariès
Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Theme is the emergence of the modern conception of family life and the modern image of the nature of children. Until the end of the Middle Ages the child was, almost as soon as he was weaned, regarded as a small adult, who mingled, competed, worked, and played with mature adults.