Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment

Elizabeth Foyster is Senior Lecturer in History at Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is author of Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage and Marital Violence:An English Family History, 1660–1857 and editor with Helen Berry of The Family in Early Modern England. James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, USA. He is author / editor of Children and Youth in a New Nation; Children in Colonial America; Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with Documents; Children and War: A Historical Anthology; and The Children’s Civil War.

• IllustrationsGeneral Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction Elizabeth Foyster, University of Cambridge, UK and James Marten, University of Milwaukee, USA1 Family Relationships Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University, UK2 Community Alysa Levene, Oxford Brookes University, UK3 Economy Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark4 Geography and the Environment Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK5 Education Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul University in Chicago, USA6 Life Cycle Mary Abbott, Anglia Ruskin University, UK7 The State Steven King, University of Leicester, UK8 Faith and Religion Allison P. Coudert, University of California Davis, USA9 Health and Science Mary Lindemann, University of Miami, USA10 World Contexts Adriana Silvia Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, CanadaNotes Bibliography Contributors Index

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