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The Disappearance of Childhood

Paperback • 1994 • English

The Disappearance of Childhood

By Neil Postman

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About the book

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and ad...Show more

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ISBN

9780679751663

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

The Disappearance of Childhood

Format

Paperback

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