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general reading

L. Abrams, The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland’s Broken Homes from 1885 to the Present Day (1998).
R. Apple, Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America (2006).
P. Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood (1962).
H.P Chudacoff, Children at Play: An American History (2007).
A. Davin, Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London, 1870-1914 (1996).
J. Donzelot, The Policing of Families (1979).
L.L. Downs, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies des vacances in France, 1880–1960 (2002).
C. Dyhouse, Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (1981).
H. Cunningham, The Invention of Childhood (2006).
P. Fass (ed.), Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society. 3 vols. (2004).
E. Foyster and J. Marten (eds.), A Cultural History of Childhood and Family. 6 vols. (2010).
R.G. Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France (2008).
H. Hendrick, Child Welfare: England 1872-1989 (1994).
C. Heywood, A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times (2001).
C. Heywood, Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic (2007).
A. Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children (2003).
J.E. Illick, American Childhoods (2002).
R.I. Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (2007).
D.A. Kertzer and M. Barbagli (eds.) The History of the European Family. 3 vols. (2001-2003).
D. Lee, Petain's Jewish Children (2014).
S. Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood.
L.A Pollock, Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900 (1983).
M. Thomson, Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement (2013).
E. West, Growing Up in Twentieth-Century America: A History and Reference Guide (1996).
L.S. Weisbach, Child Labour Reform in Nineteenth-Century France: Assuring the Future Harvest (1989).