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Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience, drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and...
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  • 19 August 1999
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Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience. Drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources, the authors probe a series of key issues: the definition of "the child" and the formation of identity; the emotional world of childhood; the changing attitudes of the state to family intimacy and parent-child relations; the sexuality of children; children and authority; and children and crime.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 188
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 19 August 1999
ISBN: 9780719053948
Format: Paperback
BISACs: Age groups: children, General and world history, Social and cultural history
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Anthony Fletcher is Professor of History at the University of Essex. Stephen Hussey is Essex County Lecturer in History at the University of Essex

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a child? Anna Davin
Chapter 2: Children's deaths in the seventeenth century. Ralph Houlbrooke.
Chapter 3: Silent witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early modern England.
Chapter 4: 'A denial of innocence': Female juvenile victims of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century.
Chapter 5: Home, play and street life: Causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime in the early nineteenth century. Heather Shore
Chapter 6: Parental-child separation and colonial careers: The Talbot family correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s.
Elizabeth Buettner.
Chapter 7: Family, community and the regulation of child sex abuse: London 1870-1914. Louise Jackson.
Chapter 8: Homeless, destitute and neglected: Children's experience of welfare in modern Scotland. Lynn Abrams.