An international team of scholars offers fresh insights into the impact of globalization on children's lives, outlooks, and behavior.

Hoda Mahmoudi holds The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Introduction: Children and Globalization Part I: Historicizing Global Childhood 1. "Modern" Childhoods: Adjustment, Variety and Stress 2. The New Disorders of Childhood: Historical Perspectives 3. Outside the Lines: Black Girls and Boys Learn About the Interconnected Worlds of Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century North America Part II: Understanding Child Development in Global Contexts 4. The Private World of Women and Children: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes in 19th-Century Greater Syria 5. "The Elephant in the Room is the Role Model": Managing the Paradox of Pregnancy in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Classroom Part III: Recovering Children's Agency 6. "Nothing Material Occurred": Toward Rethinking the History of Early American Girlhood, 1760-1830 7. "To Find a Better Way to Live a Life in the World": An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of an Ibasho Project with Chinese Immigrant Youth in the United States 8. Growing Gaps in Enacted and Ideational Independence