Painful history of childhood

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Weary work and lousy leisure

2006
Explores the ways children and youth spent their time at various points in history, describing play, child labor, and slavery.

Fiendish crimes and punishing times

2006
Explores the ways juvenile crime was dealt with in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, presenting details on individual children sent to prison or punished in other fashions.

Freaky fashion and foul food

2006
Presents a look at a wide range of unusual food and clothing customs from different cultures around the world. Includes glossary.

Dreary dwellings and frightful families

2006
Describes the ways average people have lived in various cultures from ancient times through the twentieth century, presenting details on homes, family structures, and daily customs.

Nasty bugs and ghastly medicine

2006
Describes the ways medicine has developed over time, including information on a variety of cultures from ancient times through the twentieth century, explaining how various diseases were diagnosed and treated.

Scary schools and horrid homework

2006
Explores the ways education has changed since the sixteenth century, describing one-room schoolhouses, reading boards, quill pens, and other details about schooling in different historical periods.
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