CHEM 1P00 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide -
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At least two must be done before october 19. Posted 3pm on october 16 and due october 22. Historical analysis of childhood is limited by a lack of evidence, so that historical representations often say more about the present than the past. Demause (1974) argued that medieval childhood was a nightmare . Linda pollock (1983) used documents to show that children were not routinely abused: documents say little about peasant childhood, nothing about different cultural or racial childhoods. Historical accounts of non-european childhoods tend to be of colonial childhoods. Eric wolf"s europe and the people without history (1982) argues that the idea of history is itself a european construct: according to wolf, our conception of history is based on notions of non- European societies as lacking the idea of linear progress, something that he rejected. By 1400m global networks emerged around the trade in gold, spices and slaved.
