Children's Voices from the Past New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moruzi, Kristine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Musgrove, Nell (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pascoe Leahy, Carla (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Subjects: Oral history.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; World history.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Oral History.; Cultural History.; Social History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
• Physical Description: XIX, 342 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030118969
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11896-9

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and constrained the parameters of youthful lives. Drawing on a range of different sources, including institutional records, interviews, artwork, diaries, letters, memoirs, and objects, this interdisciplinary volume uncovers the voices of historical children, and discusses the challenges of situating these voices, and interpreting juvenile agency and desire. Divided into four sections, the book considers children's voices in different types of historical records, examining children's letters and correspondence, as well as multimedia texts such as film, advertising and art, along with oral histories, and institutional archives.