In The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction, Marten provides a sweeping narrative of the key features of childhood through time and around the world, focusing on conflict and change, war and reform, and the issues and conditions that have shaped childhood throughout history and continue to shape it in the twenty-first century.

• Introduction


• Chapter One: Traditions


• Chapter Two: Revolutions


• Chapter Three: The Rise of "Modern" Childhoods


• Chapter Four: Creating a Worldview of Childhood


• Chapter Five: The Century of the Child and Beyond


• References


• Further Reading


• Index

James Marten is Professor of History at Marquette University, where he has been a faculty member since 1986. A past president of both the Society of Civil War Historians and of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, he is the author or editor of more than fifteen books.