This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as wel

Mark Jones examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both

from the Foreword: Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddlin

"Invites the reader to take a closer look at works of art while pointing out tiny details hidden in famous works, providing information about a work or an artis

At the height of the religious ferment of the 1970s, David Van Zandt studied firsthand the most vilified of the new radical religious movements--the Children of