Global History of Childhood Reader

<p><em>The Global History of Childhood Reader</em> provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. The <em>Reader</em> is structured thematically so as to provide both a representative sampling of the historiography as well as an overview of the key issues of the field such as childhood as a social construct commonalities and differences globally and why the twentieth century was not the century of the child for most of the world's children. </p>