A Cultural History of Childhood and Family Volumes 1-6

by Foyster, Elizabeth; Marten, James

• ISBN13: 9781845208264
• ISBN10: 1845208269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This will be a six-volume set: 1. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE) 2. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages (800-1400) 3. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Renaissance (1400-1650) 4. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) 5. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Empire (1800-1900) 6. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Modern Age (1900-2000) In the past twenty years, there has been an explosion of research on the history of childhood and family. Growing out of the field of gender history, the history of childhood and family has developed into a sub-specialty of its own rights with list-servs, international organisations, and journals. The time is ripe to create a reference set that will put this research into context. A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family is a multi-volume project that will examine how childhood and the family was constructed, experienced, understood and represented over time and across different cultures. The series will be: Comprehensive in its approach; Comparative in its intent; Representative of current scholarship; Synthetic but also interpretative; Focused chiefly on Europe and the United States, but, where appropriate, include the experiences of non-western and indigenous peoples (via discussion of immigration and Empire). The broad table of contents that will serve each volume is detailed below. Each book will consider the life cycle from birth until death in both the family unit and society as a whole. Several important threads need to be integrated throughout: 1. Constructions of childhood and the family; 2. Gender; 3. Class; 4. Ethnicity; 5. Material culture; 6. Art, literature, and other cultural representations of children and the family.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and author of Marital Conflict and Violence in the English Family, 1660-1857 and Manhood in Early Modern England. James Marten is Chair of the Department of History at Marquette University and author or editor of several books on the history of childhood, including Children and War: A Historical Anthology and Children in Colonial America.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Family Relationships

Community

Economy

Geography and the Environment

Education

Life Cycle

The State

Faith and Religion

Health and Science

World Contexts

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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