The Unwanted Child

Informationen zum Autor Joel F. Harrington is professor of history and associate provost for global strategy at Vanderbilt University. His books include Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany. Klappentext The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience! but in the early modern world! unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail. "Joel F. Harrington breaks new ground with this work.... The Unwanted Child mounts a rich, successful challenge to top-down historical approaches to the subject." (Choice) "In his fascinating study, Joel F. Harrington acquaints the reader with the realities of child abandonment and infanticide and the challenges that early modern social distortions, triggered by wars, economic crisis, and climate change, to name but a few, held for poor families.... Essential for students as well as for researchers." (Journal of Social History)" Zusammenfassung The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience! but in the early modern world! unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail.

Product details

• Authors: Joel F. Harrington, Harrington Joel F.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226102054
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10205-4
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Age groups: children, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600