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Anderson, Michael S. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Trans. R. Baldick. New York: Vintage, 1965 [orig. 1960].

Berkner, Lutz K. "Recent Research on the History of the Family in Western Europe." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 35 (1973), 395-405.

Boswell, John Eastburn. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Pantheon, 1989.

Braun, Samuel J. and Esther P. Edwards. History and Theory of Early Childhood Education. Worthington, Ohio: Charles A. Jones, 1972.

Bunge, Marcia J., ed. The Child in Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2001.

Casey, James. The History of the Family. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Cleverley, John and D.C. Phillips. Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986

Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children. New York: Random House, 1996.

Colon, A.R. & P.A. Colon. Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1999.

Cunningham, Hugh. Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. New York: Longman, 1995.

De Mause, Lloyd, ed. The History of Childhood. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1976.

De Mause, Lloyd. "The Evolution of Childhood." In The History of Childhood, pp. 1-73; also in History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973), 503-606, with comments.

Demos, John. "Developmental Perspectives on the History of Childhood." In Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History, 127-40.

Demos, John and Sarane Spence Boocock, eds. Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Eisenstadt, S.N. "Archteypal Patterns of Youth." In Erik H. Erikson, ed., Youth: Change and Challenge (New York: Basic Books, 1963), 24-42.

Eisenstadt, S.N. From Generation to Generation: Age Groups and Social Structure. Glencoe Ill: The Free Press, 1956.

Ende, Aurel. "Children in History: A Personal Review of the Past Decade's Published Research." Journal of Pschohistory, 11 (1983-84), 65-88.

Erikson, Erik H. Childhood and Society. New York, 1963.

Farman, F. Landmarks in the History of Education. 2nd ed. London: J. Murray, 1973.

Fildes, Valerie A. Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986

Fildes, Valerie. Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988

Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum, eds. Family and Society: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations. Trans. by Elborg Forster and Patricia M. Ranum. Baltimore-London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Gillis, John R. "Youth History: Progress and Prospects." Journal of Social History, 7 (1973), 201ff.

Goldthorpe, J. E. Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Goody, Jack. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Past and Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Goody, Jack. "The Evolution of the Family." In P. Laslett and Wall, Household and Family in Past Time, pp. 103-24.

Goody, Jack, Joan Thirsk, and F.P.Thompson. Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Gottlieb, Beatrice. The Family in the Western World: From the Black Death to the Industrial Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Greenleaf, Barbara Kay. Children through the Ages: A History of Childhood, New York: McGraw Hill, 1978.

Hareven, Tamara K. "The History of the Family as an Interdisciplinary Field." In Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History, 211-26.

Harris, Barbara J. "Recent Work on the History of the Family: A Review Article." Feminist Studies, 3 (1976), 159-172.

Harris, Marvin and Eric Ross. Death, Sex and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial Developing Societies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Hawes, Joseph M. and N. Ray Hiner, eds. Children in Historical and Comparative Perspective: An International Handbook and Research Guide. New York: Greenwood, 1991.

Heywood, Colin. A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.

Kenniston, Kenneth. "Psychological Development and Historical Change." In Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History, 141-57.

Kohut, Thomas A. "Psychohistory as History." AHR 91 (1986): 336-54.

Konner, Melvin. Childhood: A Multicultural Approach. New York: Little Brown, 1991. HQ781 .K66 1991

Langer, William L. "Infanticide: A Historical Survey." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74), 353-65.

Langer, William L. "Further Notes on the History of Infanticide." History of Childhood Quarterly, 2 (1974-75), 129-33.

Lasch, Christopher. "The Family in History." NYRB, 11/13/75, pp. 33ff.

Laslett, Peter. Bastardy and its Comparative History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Laslett, Peter. Family Forms in Historical Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Laslett, Peter and Richard Wall, ed. Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Laslett, Peter and Richard Wall, eds. Household and Family in Past Time: Comparative Studies in the Size and Structure of the Domestic Group over the Last Three Centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan, and Colonial North America.  Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 1972.

Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost (Further Explored): England before the Industrial Age. 3rd ed.,London: Methuen, 1983; London, 1971; orig. New York: Scribner,1965.

Lopez, Manuel D. "A Guide to the Interdisciplinary Literature of the History of Childhood." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74), 463-494.

Maynes, Mary Jo. Schooling in Western Europe: A Social History. SUNY Series on Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Social History. Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.

Medick, Hans and David Warren Sabean, eds. Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship. New York: Cambridge UP; Paris: Maison des Sciences del'Homme, 1984.

Milden, James W. The Family in Past Time: A Guide to the Literature. New York and London: Garland Pub, 1977.

Mintz, Steven. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Mitterauer, Michael. A History of Youth: Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Mitterauer, Michael and Reinhard Sieder. The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present. Trans. by Karla Oosterveen and Manfred Hoerzinger. Chicago: Chicago Press, 1982.

Rabb, Theodore K. and Robert Rotberg, eds. The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1973 (orig. 1971).

Riddle, John M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Rosenberg, Charles, ed. The Family in History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.

Schorsch, Anita. Images of Childhood: An Illustrated Social History. Main Street Press, 1979.

Segalen, Martine. Historical Anthropology of the Family. Trans. by J.C. Whitehouse and Sarah Matthews. Themes in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Sinofsky, Faye, et al. "A Bibliography of Psychohistory." History of Childhood Quarterly, 2 (1974-75), 517-62.

Sommerville, C. John. "Bibliographic Note: Toward a History of Childhood and Youth." In Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History, 227-35.

Sommerville, C. John. The Rise and Fall of Childhood. Beverly Hills CA: Sage, 1982.

Speert, Harold. Obstetrics and Gynecology: A History and Iconography: Revised Third Edition of Iconographia Gyniatrica. New York: Parthenon Publishing, 2004.

Still, George F. The History of Pediatrics: The Progress of the Study of Diseases of Children up to the End of the XVIIIth Century. London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931; London: Dawson of Pall Mall, 1953.

Therborn, Goran. Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000. London: Routledge, 2005.

Walle, Etienne, van de. "Recent Approaches to Past Childhoods." In Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History, 171-77.

Wheaton, Robert and Tamara K. Hareven. Family and Sexuality in French History. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

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Antiquity

Beck, A.G. Greek Education, 450-350 BC. London, 1964.

Belmont, N. "`Levana,' ou comment 'éléver'les enfants." Annales ESC, 38 (1973), 77-89.

Bennett, H. "Exposure of Infants in Ancient Rome." Classical Journal, 18 (1923), 341-45.

Bergmann, Martin S. The Sacrifice of Children and Its Impact on Western Religions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Block, E, "Failure to Thrive: The Theme of Parents and Children in the Aeneid and its Iliadic Models." Ramus 9: 128-49

Blummer, H. The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks. New York: Cooper Square, 1966.

Bonner, Stanley F. Education in Ancient Rome: from Cato the Elder to Pliny the Younger. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.

Boswell, John Eastburn. "Expositio and oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family." American Historical Review, 89 (1984), 10-33.

Boswell, John Eastburn. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Pantheon, 1989.

Bradley, Keith R. Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Cameron, A. "The Exposure of Children and Greek Ethics." Classical Review, 46 (1932) 105-14

Champlin, Edward. Final Judgments: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 BC-AD 250. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. HN10.R7 C43 1991/HC

Cribiore, Raffaella. Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Dixon, Suzanne, ed. Childhood, Class, and Kin in the Roman World. London: Routledge, 2001. HQ767.87 .C477 2001

Dixon, Suzanne. The Roman Family. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Dixon, Suzanne. The Roman Mother. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Easterling, P.E "The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea." Yale Classical Studies, 25:177-191

Evans, John K. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome. London-New York: Routledge, 1991

Gardner. Jane. Women in Roman Law and Society. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Golden, Mark. Children and Childhood in Classical Athens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Golden, Mark. "Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens." Phoenix 35:316-31

Hallett, Judith P. Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Harris, William V. "The Theoretical Possibility of Extensive Infanticide in the Graeco-Roman World." Classical Quarterly, 32 (1982), 114-16

Joshel, Sandra R. "Nurturing the Master's Child: Slavery and the Roman Child-Nurse." Signs 12 (1986):3-22

Klein, Anita. Child Life in Greek Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.

Lacey, W.K. The Family in Classical Greece. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968.

Levenson, Jon D.. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judiasm and Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Lyman, Richard B., Jr. "Barbarism and Religion: Late Roman and Early Medieval Childhood." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

Marrou, Henri I. A History of Education in Antiquity. Trans. George Lamb. New York: Mentor, 1956; rpt. 1964.

Nagle, D. Brendan. The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Nagy, Blaise. "The Naming of Athenian Girls: A Case in Point." Classical Journal 74:360-364

Pomeroy, Sarah B. "Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece." In Images of Women in Antiquity, ed. by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt (London and Canberra), 207-222

Patterson, Cynthia. "Not Worth the Rearing." Transactions of the American Philosophical Association, 115 (1985), 103-123

Pomeroy, Sarah. Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Raden, Max. "Exposure of Infants in Roman Law and Practice." Classical Journal, 20 (1925), 342-343.

Rawson, Beryl. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. DG91 .R39 2003/BAR

Rawson, Beryl, ed. The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives. Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 1986

Riddle, John M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Saller, Richard P. Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Shaw, Brent D. "The Family in Late Antiquity: The Experience of Augustine." Past and Present, 115 (1987): 3-51

Wiedemann, Thomas. Adults and Children in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

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The Middle Ages

Alexandre-Bidon, Daniele & Didier Lett. Children in the Middle Ages: Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries. Trans. Jody Gladding. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

Atkinson, Clarissa. The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Baumgarten, Elisheva. Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Biller, P.A. "Birth Control in the Medieval West." Past and Present, 94 (1982), 3-26.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

Boswell, John Eastburn. "Expositio and oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family." American Historical Review, 89 (1984), 10-33.

Boswell, John Eastburn. The Kindness of Stangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Pantheon, 1989

Brown, Elizabeth A.R. "The Prince is Father of the King: The Character and Childhood of Philip the Fair of France." Mediaeval Studies, 49 (1987), 282-334.

Burrow, J.A. The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought. New York: Clarendon P of Oxford University Press, 1986.

Christian, William. Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Esp. chap. 4.

Coleman, Emily. "Infanticide in the Early Middle Ages." In Susan Mosher Stuard, ed., Women in Medieval Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976), 47-70

Courtenay, William J. Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

De Jong, Mayke. In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West. New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.

DeMaitre, Luke. "The Idea of Childhood and Child Care in Medical Writings of the Middle Ages." Journal of Psychohistory, 4 (1976-77), 461-490.

Forsyth, Ilene H. "Children in Early Medieval Art: Ninth through Twelfth Centuries." Journal of Psychohistory, 4 (1976-77), 31-70.

Gabriel, Astrik L. The Educational Ideas of Vincent of Beauvais. South Bend Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 1962.

Gardiner, Dorothy. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women's Education through Twelve Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Goodich, Michael. "Childhood and Adolescence among the Thirteenth-Century Saints." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74), 285-309.

Goodich, Michael E. From Birth to Old Age: The Human Life Cycle in Medieval Thought, 1250-1350. Lanham MD: University Presses of America, 1989.

Goody, Jack, Joan Thirsk, and F.P.Thompson. Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Goody, Jack. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Past and Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Gransden, Antonia. "Childhood and Youth in Medieval England." Nottingham Medieval Studies, 16 (1972), 3ff.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. "Childrearing among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 8 (1977), 9-15.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England. Oxford University Press, 1986.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. Growing Up In Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Helmholz, Richard H. "Infanticide in the Province of Canterbury during the 15th Century." History of Childhood Quarterly 2 (1975): 379-90

Herlihy, David. "Land, Family and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200." Traditio, 18 (1962), 89-120.

Herlihy, David. "The Making of the Medieval Family: Symmetry, Structure and Sentiment." Journal of Family History, 8 (1983), 116-130.

Herlihy, David. "Medieval Children." In Bede K. Lackner and Kenneth R. Philp, eds. The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures: Essays on Medieval Civilization, 109-41. Austin: Texas Press, 1978.

Herlihy, David. Medieval Households. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003.

Kellum, Barbara A. "Infanticide in England in the Later Middle Ages." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74), 367-388.

Labarge, Margaret Wade. A Baronial Household in the Thirteenth Century. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965.

Le Goff, Jacques, and Georges Duby. Famille et parenté dans l'occident mediéval. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1977.

Lyman, Richard B., Jr. "Barbarism and Religion: Late Roman and Early Medieval Childhood." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

Lynch, Joseph H. Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Marcus, Ivan G. Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

McLaughlin, Mary Martin. "Survivors and Surrogates: Children and Parents from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause, 101-181. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974.

Miller, Timothy S. The Orphans of Byzantium : Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2003.

Murray, Mary. The Law of the Father? Patriarchy in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Nicholas, David. The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent. Lincoln-London: Nebraska Press, 1985

Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530. London-New York: Methuen, 1984.

Orme, Nicholas. English Schools in the Middle Ages. London: Methuen, 1983.

Pentikåinen, Juha. The Nordic Dead-Child Tradition: Nordic Dead-Child Beings: A Study in Comparative Religion. FF Communications, No. 202 (Helsinki 1968), 68-76

Quinn, Patricia A. Better than the Sons of Kings: Boys and Monks in the Early Middle Ages. Studies in History and Culture, 2. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Reid, Charles J., Jr. Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans, 2004.

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Riddle, John M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Schultz, James A. The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

Sears, Elizabeth. The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Shahar, Shulamith. Childhood in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1990

Shahar, Shulamith. "Infants, Infant Care, and Attitudes Toward Infancy in the Medieval Lives of Saints." Journal of Pschohistory, 10 (1982-83), 281-309.

Walker, Susan Sheridan. "Widow and Ward: The Feudal Law of Child Custody in Medieval England." Feminist Studies 3:3/4 (1975); also in Susan Mosher Stuard, ed., Women in Medieval Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976), 159-172

Weinstein, Donald and Rudolph M. Bell. Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700. Chicago: Chicago Press, 1982. Esp. chaps. 1-2.

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The Italian Renaissance

Banker, James R. "Mourning a Son: Childhood and Paternal Love in the Consolateria [sic] of Giannozzo Manetti." History of Childhood Quarterly, 2 (1976), 351-362.

Bianchi, Francesco. La Ca'di Dio di Padova nel Quattrocento: Riforma e Governo di un Ospedale per l'Infanzia Abbandonata. Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Memorie, Classe di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed arti, 109), 2005.

Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Chojnacki, Stanley, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Baltimore-London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Constable, M.V. "The Education of the Venetian Orphans from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: an Expression of Guillaume Postel's Judgment of Venice as a Public Welfare State." In Postello, Venezia, 179-202. Florence: Olschki, 1987.

Davis, James C. A Venetian Family and its Fortune, 1500-1900: the Donà and the Conservation of Their Wealth. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press, 1975.

Dempsey, Charles. Inventing the Renaissance putto.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2002.

Gavitt, Philip. Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410-1536. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990

Grafton, Anthony & Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: Duckworth, 1986. Esp. chaps. 1-2.

Grendler, Paul. Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

Hughes, Diana Owen. "Urban Growth and Family Structure in Medieval Genoa." Past and Present, 66 (1975), 3-28.

Hughes, Diane Owen. "Domestic Ideals and Social Behavior: Evidence from Medieval Genoa." In Charles E. Rosenberg, ed., The Family in History (Philadelphia, 1975), pp. 115ff.

Jones, Philip J. "Florentine Families and Florentine Diaries in the Fourteenth Century." Papers of the British School at Rome, 24 (ns 5, vol. 11) (1956), 183-205.

Kelso, Ruth. Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance. Urbana, IL: Illinois Press, 1956; rpt.

Kent, Francis William. Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, and Rucellai. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

King, Margaret L. "Caldiera and the Barbaros on Marriage and the Family: Humanist Reflections of Venetian Realities." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 6 (1976), 19-50.

King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Chapter 1.

King, Margaret L. The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Klapisch, Christiane. "Household and Family in Tuscany in 1427." In P. Laslett and Wall, ed., Household and Family in Past Time, pp. 267-281.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. Chicago, Chicago Press, 1985. Esp. chaps. 4-7.

Kuehn, Thomas. Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982.

Kuehn, Thomas.  Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy. Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

McClure, George W. "The Art of Mourning: Autobiographical Writings on the Loss of a Son in Italian Humanist Thought (1400-1461)." Renaissance Quarterly, 39 (1986), 440-75.

Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie. The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Polizzotto, Lorenzo. Children of the Promise: The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence 1427-1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Riddle, John M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Robey, David. "Humanism and Education in the Early Quattrocento: The De ingenuis moribus of Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder." Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance, 42 (1980); also 43 (1981), 129-140.

Ross, J.B. "The Middle-Class Child in Urban Italy, Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Century." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause, 183-228. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974.

Starn, Randolph. "Francesco Guicciardini and his Brothers." In Renaissance Studies in Honor of Hans Baron, ed. A. Molho and J.A. Tedeschi, 409-44. Florence: G.C. Sansoni; De Kalb, Illinois, 1971.

Terpstra, Nicholas. Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Trexler, Richard C. "The Foundlings of Florence, 1395-1455." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973), 259-284.

Trexler, Richard C. "In Search of Father: The Experience of Abandonment in the Recollections of Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli." History of Childhood Quarterly, 3 (1975-76), 225-252.

Trexler, Richard C. "Infanticide in Florence: New Sources and First Results." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74), 98-116.

Trexler, Richard C. Public Life in Renaissance Florence. Studies in Social Discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1980.

Trexler, Richard C. "Ritual in Florence: Adolescence and Salvation in the Renaissance." In Charles Trinkaus and Heiko A. Oberman, eds., The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion (Leiden 1974), 200-264.

Trexler, Richard C. Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence; 1: The Children of Florence; 2: The Women of Florence; 3: The Workers of Florence. 3 vols. Binghamton, New York: SUNY (MRTS), 1993.

Woodward, W.H. Studies in Education During the Age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906; rpt., New York, 1967.

Woodward, W.H. Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897. Rpt. (ed. Eugene F. Rice, Jr.) New York: Teachers' College, 1964.

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Early Modern Europe

Abbot, Mary. Life Cycles in England, 1560-1720: Cradle to Grave. London-New York: Routledge, 1996.

Anderson, Michael S. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Bainton, Roland. "Psychiatry and History: An Examination of Erikson's Young Man Luther." Religion in Life, 40 (1971), 450-478.

Bainton, Roland. "Luther: A Psychiatric Portrait." Yale Review, 48 (1959), 405-410.

Bayne-Powell, Rosamund. The English Child in the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1939.

Ben-Amos, Ilana Krausman. Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Bogna, W. Lorence. "Parents and Children in Eighteenth-Century Europe." History of Childhood Quarterly, 2 (1974-75), 1-30.

Brewer, Holly. By Birth Or Consent : Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Byman, Seymour. "Child Raising and Melancholia in Tudor England." Journal of Pschohistory, 6 (1978-79), 67-92.

Covington, Sarah. "'Spared Not from Tribulation': Children in Early Modern Martyrologies." Archiv Fur Reformationsgeschichte-Archive for Reformation History 97, (2006): 165--183.

Crawford, Katherine. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge MA: Harvard Unviersity Press, 2004.

Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cunningham, Hugh. Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500. New York: Longman, 1995.

Cunningham, Phyllis and Buck, Anne. Children's Costume in England, Thirteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred. Scranton, Pa: Barnes & Noble, 1965.

Davis, Natalie. "The Reasons of Misrule: Youth Groups and Charivaris in Sixteenth-Century France." Past and Present (1971), 41-75; also in Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, qv.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1979.

Desan, Suzanne. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Eby, Friedrich. Early Protestant Educators. New York and London: McGraw Hill, 1931

Eccles, Audrey. Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press,1982.

Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650.  Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2002.

Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England. Troy, New York: Whitson, 1984.

Enfance abandonée et société en Europe, XIV-XXe siècle: Actes du colloque international, Rome 30 et 31 janvier 1987. Collection de l'Ecole Francise de Rome. Volume 140. Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 1991.

Erikson, Erik H. Young Man Luther: A Study of Psychoanalysis and History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1958, 1962.

Esler, Anthony. The Aspiring Mind of the Elizabethan Younger Generation. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.

Flandrin, Jean-Louis. Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality in Early Modern France. Trans. Richard Southern. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1979. French orig. 1976.

Friedman, M. "The Influence of Humanism on the Education of Girls and Boys in Tudor England." History of Education, 25 (1985), 57-70.

Gager, Kristin Elizabeth. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Gardiner, Dorothy. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women's Education through Twelve Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Goody, Jack, Joan Thirsk, and F.P.Thompson. Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Hanham, Alison. The Celys and Their World: An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Hoffer, Peter C. & N.E.H. Hull. Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803. New York: New York University Press, 1981. HV6541 .G72 E54

Houlbrooke, Ralph A. The English Family, 1450-1700. Themes in British Social History. New York: Longman, 1984.

Hunecke, Volker. I trovatelli di Milano: Bambini espositi e famiglie espositrici dal XVII al XIX secolo. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989.

Hunt, David. Parents and Children in History: The Psychology of Family Life in Early Modern France. New York: Basic Books, 1970.

Huppert, George. Public Schools in Renaissance France. Urbana, IL.: Illinois Press, 1984.

Illick, Joseph E. "Child-Rearing in Seventeenth-Century England and America." In The History of Childhood, ed. Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

Jackson, Mark. Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000.  Harmondsworth: Ashgate, 2002.

Katalin, Peter, ed. Beloved Children: History of Aristocratic Childhood in Hungary in the Early Modern Age. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press, 2001.

Knox, Dilwyn. "Disciplina: The Monastic and Clerical Origins of European Civility." In Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., ed. John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto, 107-35. New York: Italica Press, 1991.

Laslett, Peter. Bastardy and its Comparative History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Laslett, Peter and Richard Wall, ed. Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Laslett, Peter and Richard Wall, eds. Household and Family in Past Time: Comparative Studies in the Size and Structure of the Domestic Group over the Last Three Centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan, and Colonial North America.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost (Further Explored): England before the Industrial Age. 3rd ed.,London: Methuen, 1983; London, 1971; orig. New York: Scribner,1965.

Lindbeck, George A. "Erikson's Young Man Luther: A Historical and Theological Reappraisal." Soundings, 56 (1973), 210-227.

MacFarlane, Alan. The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a Seventeenth-Century Clergyman: An Essay in Historical Anthropology. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

MacFarlane, Alan. Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300-1840. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

MacFarlane, Alan. The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property, and Social Transition. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978.

Macquoid, Percy. Four Hundred Years of Children's Costumes from the Great Masters, 1400-1800. London: The Medici Society, 1923.

Marcus, Leah S. Childhood and Cultural Despair: A Theme and Variations in Seventeenth-Century Literature. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.

Marland, Hilary, ed. The Art of Midwifery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe. London: Routledge, 1993.

Marvick, Elizabeth Wirth. Louis XIII: The Making of a King. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Marvick, Elizabeth Wirth. "Nature versus Nurture: Patterns and Trends in Seventeenth Century French Child-Rearing." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

McLaren, Dorothy. "Marital Fertility and Lactation, 1570-1720." In Mary Prior, ed., Women in English Society, 22-53.

McTavish, Lianne. Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Meyer, Donald B. "A Review of Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History." History and Theory, 1 (1961), 291-297.

Miller, Naomi J. and Naomi Yavneh, eds. Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period. Aldershot-Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2000.

Murphy, Terence R. "`Woful Childe of Parents Rage': Suicide of Children and Adolescents in Early Modern England, 1507-1710." The Sixteenth Century Journal, 17 (1986), 259-270.

Murray, Mary. The Law of the Father? Patriarchy in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Orme, Nicholas. Education and Society in Medieval and Renaissance England. London-Ronceverte [WV]: The Hambledon Press, 1989

Ozment, Steven. Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Ozment, Steven. "The Family in Reformation Germany: The Bearing and Rearing of Children." Journal of Family History, 8 (1983), 159-176.

Ozment, Steven. Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in early Modern Germany.  New York: Viking, 1999.

Ozment, Steven, ed. Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany: A Chronicle of Their Lives. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1990.

Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Studies in Cultural History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Pinchbeck, Ivy and Margaret Hewitt. Children in English Society: Vol. I, From Tudor Times to the Eighteenth Century; II, From the Eighteenth Century to the Children Act, 1948. London, 1969, 1973.

Polizzotto, Lorenzo. Children of the Promise: The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence 1427-1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Pollock, Linda. Forgotten Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Pruyser, Paul W. "Erikson's Young Man Luther: A New Chapter in the Psychology of Religion." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2 (1962-63), 238-242.

Pullan, Brian S. Orphans and Foundlings in Early Modern Europe: The Stenton Lecture 1989. Reading Press, 1989

Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Riddle, John M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Saffady, William. "The Effects of Childhood Bereavement and Parental Remarriage in Sixteenth-Century England: The Case of Thomas More." History of Childhood Quarterly, 1 (1973-74) or 2 (1974-75), 310-336.

Scaglione, Aldo. The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub., 1986

Sherwood, Joan. Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Women and Children of the Inclusa. Buffalo New York: Toronto Press, 1988.

Simon, Joan. Education and Society in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Slater, Miriam. Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House. London-Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Smith, Preserved. "Luther's Early Development in the Light of Psychoanalysis." American Journal of Psychology, 24 (1913), 360-377.

Smith, Steven R. "Religion and the Conception of Youth in Seventeenth-Century England." History of Childhood Quarterly, 2 (1974-75), 493-516.

Sommerville, C. John. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Sommerville, C. John. "English Puritans and Children: A Socio-Cultural Explanation." Journal of Psychohistory, 6 (1978-79), 113-138.

Sowards, J.Kelley. "Erasmus and the Education of Women." Sixteenth Century Journal, 13 (1982), 77-90.

Spierling, Karen E. Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536-1564. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Spitz, Lewis W. "Psychohistory and History: The Case of Young Man Luther." Soundings, 56 (1973), 182-209.

Staub, Susan C. Nature's Cruel Stepdames : Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005.

Stone, Lawrence. Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London-New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977; abr. ed. New York etc: Harper & Row, 1979.

Strauss, Gerald. Luther's House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Strong, Roy. Henry Prince of Wales, and England's Lost Renaissance. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Traer, James F. Marriage and the Family in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Travitsky, B.S. "The New Mother of the English Renaissance: Her Writings on Motherhood." In The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature, ed. by C. Davison and E.M. Broner (New York, 1980), pp. 33-43.

Tucker, M.J. "The Child as Beginning and End: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century English Childhood." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

Vanhaelen, Angela. Comic Print and Theater in Early Modern Amsterdam: Gender, Chlidhood and the City.Aldershot England-Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2003.

Weir, Alison. The Children of Henry VIII. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

Wilson, Adrian. The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Wooden, Warren W. "Childhood and Death: A Reading of John Skelton's Phillip Sparrow." Journal of Psychohistory, 7 (1979-80), 403-414.

Wooden, Warren W., ed. Children's Literature of the English Renaissance. Ed. Jeanie Watson. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1986

Wooden, Warren W. "The Topos of Childhood in Marian England." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 12 (1982), 179-184.

Woolf, Stuart. Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Colonial Americas and the U.S. to 1900

Angelo, Bonnie. First Mothers: The Women who Shaped the Presidents. Willliam Morrow, 2000.

Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the Forming of American Society. Chapel Hill, 1960.

Beatty, Barbara. Preschool Education in America: the Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Berebitsky, Julie. Like our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950.  Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Borst, Charlotte G. Catching Babies: the Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Bremner, Robert. Childhood and Youth in America: A Documentary History. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970-1974.

Calhoun, Arthur W. A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present. 3 vols. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1945.

Calvert, Karin. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Caulfield, Ernest. The Infant Welfare Movement in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1931.

Chipman, Donald E. Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Social Origins of a Private Life: A History of American Families, 1600-1900. New York: Verso, 1988.

Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Demos, John. Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Formanek-Brunell, Miriam. Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Graham, Judith S. Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. F 7 .G73 2000

Greven, Philip J., Jr. Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970.

Greven, Philip J., Jr. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child Rearing, Religious Experience and the Self in Early America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.  BR515 .G75 1977/GC

Greven, Philip. Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Hoffer, Peter C. & N.E.H. Hull. Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803. New York: New York University Press, 1981. HV6541 .G72 E54

Illick, Joseph E. "Child-Rearing in Seventeenth-Century England and America." In The History of Childhood, ed. Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

Illick, Joseph E. American Childhoods. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

Klapper, Melissa R. and Inc ebrary. Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Lewis, Jan. The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Lombard, Anne S. Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England.  Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Marten, James. The Children's Civil War. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Marten, James. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. Chicago: Ivan Dee, 2004.

McMillen, Sally G. Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infant Rearing. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst; Worcester: University of Massachusetts Press; American Antiquarian Society, 2005.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England. Rev.ed, New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

Nelson,Claudia.  Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003.

Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Perry, Claire, Iris. Young America : Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2006.

Scholten, Catherine M. Childbearing in American Society, 1650-1850. New York: New York University Press, 1985

Smuts, Alice Boardman and Robert W. Smuts. Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Walzer, John F. "A Period of Ambivalence: Eighteenth-Century American Childhood." In The History of Childhood, ed. by Lloyd de Mause (New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974).

West, Elliott and Paula Petrik. Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. HQ792.U5 S575 1992

Wishy, Bernard. The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Nurture. Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

Zelizer, Viviana. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

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Europe 1800-1945

Ball, Alan M. And Now My Soul is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

Benjamin, Walter. Berlin Childhood Around 1900. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Cleverley, John and D.C. Phillips. Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986

Dickinson, Edward Ross. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Downs, Laura Lee. Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2002.

Dwork, Deborah. Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Dwork, Deborah. War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A Study of Child Welfare in England 1898-1918. London: Tavistock, 1987. JLE 87-2362

Fishman, Sarah. The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France.  Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Gillis, John. Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1770 to the Present. New York, 1974.

Gillis, John R., Louise Tilly, & David Levine, eds. The European Experience of Declining Fertility: The Quiet Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. JFE 92-9062 GC/HB 991 .E97 1992

Harevan, Tamara K Family Time and Industrial Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Harvey, Elizabeth. Youth and the Welfare State in Weimar Germany. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1993. JFD 94-179

Heywood, Colin. Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France: Work, Health and Education among the 'Classes populaires'. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Hopkins, Eric. Childhood Transformed: Working-Class Children in Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Manchester University Press; dist. St. Martin's, 1994.

Horn, Pamela. Children's Work and Welfare, 1780-1890. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Horn, Pamela. The Victorian Town Child. New York University Press, 1998.

Hunecke, Volker. I trovatelli di Milano: Bambini espositi e famiglie espositrici dal XVII al XIX secolo. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989.

Jackson, Mark. Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000.  Harmondsworth: Ashgate, 2002.

Kertzer, David I. Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Birth Control. Boston: Beacon, 1993.

Klaus, Alisa. Every Child a Lion: The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Lerner, Laurence. Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.

Lynch, Katherine A. Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working Class Family 1825-1848. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

Rose, Lionel. The Massacre of the Innocents: Infanticide in Britain, 1800-1929. London: Routledge, 1986. HV6541.G7 R67 1986

Schafer, Sylvia. Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Schleunes, Karl A. Schooling and Society: The Politics of Education in Prussia and Bavaria, 1750-1900. New York: St. Martin's, 1989

Shorter, Edward. The Making of the Modern Family. New York: Basic Books, 1975.

Steedman, Carolyn. Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Wullschlager, Jackie. Inventing Wonderland: Victorian Childhood as Seen Through the Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A.A. Milne. New York: Free Press, 1996.

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Non-Western or Traditional Societies

Brendon, Vyvyen. Children of the Raj. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.

Buettner, Elizabeth. Empire Families. Britons and Late Imperial India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004/

Cole, Alan. Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. CC/ BQ5440.C65 1998

Ebrey, Patricia. Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Fleming, Laurence, ed. Last Children of the Raj.: British Childhoods in India. Volume I 1919-1939 Volume II 1939-1950. Radcliffe Press, 2004.

Fuess, Harald. Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Hsiung, Ping-Chen. A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Kinney, Anne Behnke, ed. Chinese Views of Childhood. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.

Kinney, Anne Behnke. Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Premo, Bianca. Children of the Father King : Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Stafford, Charles. The Roads of Chinese Childhoood: Learning and Identification in Angang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Szonyi, Michael. Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Uno, Kathleen S. Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan. Honolulu: University Of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Waltner, Ann. Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Wolf, Arthur P. & Chieh-Shan-Huang. Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. 

Yan, Yunxiang. Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village,1949-1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

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Contemporary Childhood

Angelo, Bonnie. First Mothers: The Women who Shaped the Presidents. New York: William Morrow, 2000.

Barnett, Rosalind & Caryl Rivers. Same Difference: How Gender Myths are Hurting our Relationships, our Children, and our Jobs. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Berebitsky, Julie. Like our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851-1950.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Berry, Jason. Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Cook, Daniel Thomas. The Commodification of Childhood : The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Cross, Gary. Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Del Fattore, Joan. What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Downs, Laura Lee. Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2002.

Eberstadt, Mary. Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and other Parent Substitutes. Sentinel, 2004.

Edin, Kathryn & Maria Kefalas. Promises I Can Keep. 2005.

Fass, Paula S. Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Fehrenbach, Heide. Race After Hitler : Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor. New York: Clarion, 1994.

Goldthorpe, J. E. Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Hawes, Joseph M. Children Between the Wars: American Childhood, 1920-1940. Twayne, 1997.

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann. Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children.  Talk Miramax Books, 2002.

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann & Cornel West. The War Against Parents: What We Can do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann. When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting our Children. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

Hulbert, Ann. Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Hymowitz, Kay S.. Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. New York: Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Jones, Kathleen W. Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority. Cambrdige, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

King, Charles R. Children's Health in America: A History. New York: Twayne of Macmillan, 1993.

Kline, Wendy. Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Lindenmeyer, Kriste. The Greatest Generation Grows Up : American Childhood in the 1930s. American Childhoods. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005.

Marneffe, Daphne de. Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 2004.

Medovoi, Leerom. Rebels : Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Meyer,Cheryl L.& Michelle Oberman. Mothers Who Kill their Children : Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom". New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Ravitch, Diane. Kid Stuff : Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. HN90 .V5 K5 2003/BAR

Rose, Elizabeth. A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Rothschild, Joan. The Dream of the Perfect Child. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Schneider, Eric C. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Schor, Juliet B. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. New York: Scribner, 2004.

Sealander, Judith. The Failed Century of the Child : Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Sommers, Christina Hoff. The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Springhall, John. Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

Stearns, Peter N. Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Steinberg, Shirly R. and Joe L. Kincheloe. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

Tuttle, William M., Jr. Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of American Children. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

West, Elliott and Paula Petrik. Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. HQ792.U5 S575 1992

Wolcott, David B. Cops and Kids : Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005.

Wollons, Roberta. Kindergartens and Cultures: the Global Diffusion of an Idea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Adams, Henry.  The Education of Henry Adams. Various editions.

Alberti, Leon Battista. The Family in Renaissance Florence. Trans. (of Alberti's Della famiglia) Renée Neu Watkins. Columbia: S. Carolina Press, 1969. Esp. Books 1-2.

Anne of France.  Lessons for My Daughter. Ed. Sharon L. Jansen.  Rochester: Boydell and Brewer, 2004.

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