Preface xi
Introduction: Childhood in World History 1
1. Childhood in Agricultural Societies: The First Big Changes 17
2. Childhood in the Classical Civilizations 29
3. Childhood in Postclassical World History: The Impact of Religious Change 46
4. Contacts and Contrasts in the Postclassical World 57
5. Forces of Change and the Modern Model of Childhood: Developments in the West, Eighteenth Century to 1914 72
6. Alongside the Modern Model: The Pressures of Colonialism 85
7. Japan Adapts the New Model: A Process of Change in Asia 95
8. Childhood and Communist Revolutions 105
9. Childhood in the Affluent Societies, Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 117
10. Children in the Developing World 136
11. The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-tint Centuries: Children Face War and Violence 143
12. Globalization and Childhoods 153
13. The Dilemma of Children's Happiness 166
Conclusion: Childhoods from Past toward Future 173
References 183
Index 184