The Routledge history of childhood in the western world / edited by Paula S. Fass.

London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylot & Francis Group, 2013.

xvi, 531 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is there a story in the history of childhood? / Paula S. Fass -- Images of childhood in classical antiquity / Keith Bradley -- Children in Judaism and Christianity / Margaret L. King -- Childhood in medieval and early modern times / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Childhood and the Enlightenment / Larry Wolff -- Parent-child relations in Western Europe and North America, 1500-present / Julia Grant -- Children's work in countryside and city / Colin Heywood -- Children and war / James Marten -- Childhood emotions in modern Western history / Peter N. Stearns -- Children and the state / James Schmidt -- The vexed history of children and sex / Beth Bailey -- Age, schooling, and development / Stephen Lassode -- Making adolescence more or less modern / Don Romesburg -- The physical spaces of childhood / Mart Gutman -- Play, games, and toys / Gary Cross -- Children as consumers: history and historiography / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Picturing childhood in the modern West / Anne Higonnet -- Children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva -- Children in North American slavery / Steven Mintz -- Mixed-race children in the American West: conquest and its categories / Anne F. Hyde -- Infanticide, abortion, children, and childhood in Sweden, 1000-1980 / Bengt Sandin -- Social welfare in the Western world and the rights of children / Ivan Jablonka -- Children as vagrants, vagabonds, and thieves in nineteenth-century America / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- Children in scouting and other organizations / Jay Mechling -- New opportunities for children in the Great Depression in the United States / Kriste Lindenmeyer -- Childhood and youth in Nazi Germany / Dirk Schumann -- International child saving / Dominique Marshall -- Latin American childhoods and the concept of modernity / Nara Milanich.