Childhood in World History Book

1	Introduction : childhood in world history	1
2	Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes	8
3	Childhood in the classical civilizations	18
4	Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change	33
5	Debating childhood in the promodern west	43
6	Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914	54
7	Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism	65
8	Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model	73
9	Childhood and communist revolutions	82
10	Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries	93
11	The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence	110
12	Globalization and childhoods	120
13	Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future	131