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Introduction : childhood in world history
Childhood in agricultural societies
Childhood in the classical civilizations
Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change
Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world
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-1st centuries
The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-1st centuries : children face war and violence
Globalization and childhoods
The dilemma of children's happiness
Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future.
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Childhood in world history by Peter N. Stearns. ISBN 9780203839751. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.