This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-centu

Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were con

This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the establishment of the category of age as a marker

This book explores the links between age relations and cultural change, using an innovative analytical framework to map the incremental and contingent process o

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies’s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal educati