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Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

Hugh Cunningham

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2020
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Historia
ISBN:
9780367470661

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Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.

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