Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Figures.
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1: Is there a Story in the History of Childhood?.
2: Childhood in the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe.
3: Images of Childhood in Classical Antiquity.
4: Children in Judaism and Christianity.
5: Childhood in Medieval and Early Modern Times.
6: Childhood and the Enlightenment.
7: Creating Childhoods in the Western World Since 1500.
8: Parent–Child Relations in Western Europe and North America, 1500–Present.
9: Children's Work in Countryside and City.
10: Children and War.
11: Childhood Emotions in Modern Western History.
12: Children and the State.
13: The Vexed History of Children and Sex.
14: Age, Schooling, and Development.
15: Making Adolescence More or Less Modern.
16: The Physical Spaces of Childhood.
17: Play, Games, and Toys.
18: Children as Consumers.
19: Picturing Childhood in the Modern West.
20: Children's Literature.
21: Special Children at Special Times or Places.
22: Children in North American Slavery.
23: Mixedrace Children in the American West.
24: Infanticide, Abortion, Children, and Childhood in Sweden, 1000–1980.
25: Social Welfare in the Western World and the Rights of Children.
26: Children as Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves in Nineteenth-Century America.
27: Children in Scouting and other Organizations.
28: New Opportunities for Children in the Great Depression in the United States.
29: Childhood and Youth in Nazi Germany.
30: International Child Saving.
31: Latin American Childhoods and the Concept of Modernity.
Index.
