Childhood in South East Europe Historical Perspectives on Growing Up in the 19th and 20th Century

by Naumovic, Slobodan; Jovanovic, Miroslav

• ISBN13: 9783825864392
• ISBN10: 3825864391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-23
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

Rapid growth of interest in the research of childhood during the last several decades can be regarded not only as an indicator but also as an important factor in the long-term processes of changes, which have radically transformed history as a scientific discipline. With the growth of the history of childhood as a discipline a series of problems neglected until then has been opened, and along the questions about the new sources and equivalent methods of research. This is especially true for historiography in the South East European countries, where social history and historical anthropology is still marginal. The volume comprises 18 contributions to the topic with authors from all countries of the region, focussing on the 19th and 20th century. Topics like "upbringing of female children in Serbia" or "rural childhoods in mountain regions of Austria and Greece" are as well touched as "children and war" and "children and migration". This is the first volume that provides an international readership with an overall picture on childhood in South Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks	7	(6)
Theoretical Perspectives
Michael Mitterauer
A History of Childhood: Research and Teaching in South Eastern Europe	13	(18)
Rural Childhood
Siegfried Gruber
Children and their Parental Households in Central Serbia in the 19th Century	31	(14)
Maria Papathanassiou
Rural Childhood(s) in Mountain Regions of Austria and Greece: A Comparative Approach (c. 1900-1940)	45	(22)
Lena Damovska
Children's Games and Toys in Macedonia in the Period Between the Two World Wars (1918 -1941)	67	(6)
Fatherland - State - City: The "National" Child
Andrea Peto
Children and the State in Hungary: From the Periphery to the Center (19-20th Century)	73	(10)
Andrea Feldman
Imbro Tkalac: Memoirs of a Boyhood in Nineteenth Century Croatia	83	(14)
Ana Stolle
From childhood to womanhood: The Ideological Basis of the Upbringing of Female Children in Serbia at the End of the 19th Century	97	(14)
Vladimir Jovanovic
Juvenile Delinquency in Serbia at the End of the 19th Century	111	(14)
Bediz Yilmaz
Street-vendor Children in Istanbul: The Visible Facet of Urban Poverty	125	(24)
Kristina Popova
"Impure Person has No Success in Life and That is Why the One Starves": The Ideology of the Union for Child Protection in Bulgaria and the Appearance of Health-educating Rhetoric About Children in Bulgaria (1930's - 1940's)	149	(14)
Milena Angelova
The Student Summer Camps in Bulgaria between the Two World Wars	163	(14)
Troubled Childhood: Wars and Migrations
Ljubinka Trgovicevic
Children in Emigration: An Example of Serbian Children in World War One	177	(14)
Vassilis Mougrakis
Children with Two Fatherlands: Between Bana and Kitros (Greek Children Repatriated from Bulgaria)	191	(8)
Miroslav Jovanovic
Accelerated Maturity: Childhood in Emigration (Russian Children on the Balkans 1920-1940)	199	(16)
Milan Ristovic
Children as Refugees: Greek Children in Yugoslavia 1948-1960	215	(20)
Growing Up Under Watchfull Eyes: Ideology and Civil Education
Predrag J. Markovic
"Nomen Est Omen" - Given Names Witnessing the National Identity Change in Belgrade in the 20th Century	235	(14)
Radina Vujetic
ABC Textbooks and Ideological Indoctrination of Children: "Socialism Tailor-made for Man" or "Child Tailor-made for Socialism?"	249	(16)
Despina Karakatsani
The History of Citizenship Education in Greece during the Post-war Period (1950-1990): Content and Aims	265	(12)
Bibliography	277	(24)
About the Authors	301