Lost Freedom - The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement

Addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades, particularly in the loss of childhood freedom

About the author

Mathew Thomson is a Reader in History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Problem of Mental Deficiency (OUP, 1998) and Psychological Subjects (OUP, 2006).

Summary

Addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades, particularly in the loss of childhood freedom

Additional text

Lost Freedom sheds new light on decades that have lacked solid footing in modern British historiography ... Thomson's Lost Freedom will thus appeal not only to scholars working in the histories of children and childhood, but also to those more broadly interested in the history of the welfare state, the politics of psychology, changing meanings of emotion and family life, and the history of modern efforts to secure healthy human development.

Product details

• Authors: Mathew Thomson, Mathew (Reader in History Thomson, Thomson Mathew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199677481
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967748-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Age groups: children, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)