This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable diff...(展开全部)

Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it ...(展开全部)

Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it ...(展开全部)

A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhood—literary and philosophical—and the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and thei...(展开全部)

Table of Contents for A Tender Voyage List of Figures Chronological Table of China's Dynasties Preface Introduction: Children and Childhood in Traditional China 1. Physical Conditions 1. Treatment of Children 2. Newborn Care 3. Nursing and Infant Feeding 2. Social Life 3. Modes of Upbringing 4. Domestic Bond 5. The Emotional World 4. Multiplicity 6. Girlhood 7. Concepts and Rea...(展开全部)

Table of Contents for A Tender Voyage List of Figures Chronological Table of China's Dynasties Preface Introduction: Children and Childhood in Traditional China 1. Physical Conditions 1. Treatment of Children 2. Newborn Care 3. Nursing and Infant Feeding 2. Social Life 3. Modes of Upbringing 4. Domestic Bond 5. The Emotional World 4. Multiplicity 6. Girlhood 7. Concepts and Rea...(展开全部)

A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhood—literary and philosophical—and the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and thei...(展开全部)

In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different ways in which people have thought about childhood as a stage of life, the relationships of children with their families and peers, and the experiences of young people...(展开全部)

Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In...(展开全部)