Introduction : childhood in world history
Childhood in agricultural societies : the first big changes
Childhood in the classical civilizations
Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change
Debating childhood in the premodern west
Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914
Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism
Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model
Childhood and communist revolutions
Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-first centuries
The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : children face war and violence
Globalization and childhoods
Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future.
Childhood in world history by Peter N. Stearns. ISBN 0415352339. Published by Routledge in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.