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Toward a History of Childhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Philip Stewart
Philip Stewart*
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Harvard University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Summer 1972 , pp. 198 - 210
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Copyright © 1972 by New York University 

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Notes

1. Paris, 1960, and New York, 1962 (trans. Robert Baldick).Google Scholar

2. Brown, Irene Q., “Philippe Ariès on Education and Society in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France,“ History of Education Quarterly 7, no. 3 (1967): 357–68.Google Scholar

3. Davis, Natalie Zemon, “The Reasons of Misrule: youth groups and charivaris in sixteenth-century France,“ in Past and Present, no. 50 (1971), pp. 41–75.Google Scholar

4. For a discussion of this book and several others of the last few years on French educational history, see the review essay by Harnett, David A., in History of Education Quarterly 10 no. 4 (1970): 465–84. In French, a useful work is La Pédagogie en France au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles by Georges Snyders (Paris, 1965).Google Scholar

5. Pernoud, Régine, “La Vie de famille du moyen âge à l'ancien régime,” in Renouveau des idées sur la famille, ed. Prigent, Robert, (Paris, 1954), pp. 27–32.Google Scholar

6. This is the subject of a rich and interesting volume directed by Helene Bergues, entitled La Prévention des naissances dans la famille: ses origines dans les temps modernes, Institut national d'études démographiques, Travaux et Documents, no. 35 (Paris, 1960).Google Scholar

7. Henry, Louis, “The Population of France in the eighteenth century,“ Goubert, Pierre, “Recent theories and research in French population,“ Bourgeois-Pichat, J., “The General development of the population of France since the eighteenth century,“ Meuvret, J., “Demographic crisis in France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century,“ in Population in History: Essays in Historical Demography, ed. Glass, D. V. and Eversley, D. E. G., (London, 1965).Google Scholar

8. Examples pointing in this direction are the book by Georges Snyders mentioned in note 4, above, and a recent Yale thesis combining theory of the family with historical and demographic information on the social context, “The Ideology of the Family in Eighteenth-Century France,” by Dianne Alstad.Google Scholar

9. Yale French Studies, no. 43 (1969).Google Scholar

10. Stewart, Philip, “The Child comes of age“ in Yale French Studies, no. 40 (1968), pp. 134–41.Google Scholar