TY - BOOK AU - Stearns, Peter N. AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - SN - 9780415598095 (paperback) SN - 2 PY - 2011///46 CY - London :; PB - Routledge KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - History.;Social conditions KW - Children;Children N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; 5 ER -