Little Voices: The Importance and Limitations of Children’s Histories

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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Getting Personal with Our Sources: A Response

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa479 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1317-1322

Author(s):

Sarah Maza

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Critical Review ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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Children’s History Matters

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa382 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1286-1292

Author(s):

Steven Mintz

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Critical Review ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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Introduction

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa467 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1260-1260

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Critical Review ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa380 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1261-1285

Author(s):

Sarah Maza

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Critical Review ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to “The Kids Aren’t All Right”

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa383 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1300-1305

Author(s):

Ishita Pande

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of Childhood ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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A Review Essay

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00061.x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 157-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jacquelyn N. Zita

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Review Essay ◽

Critical Review ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

History Of ◽

Science Question

This essay is a critical review of Sandra Harding's The Science Question in Feminism. Her text constitutes a monumental effort to capture an overview of recent feminist critique of science and to develop a feminist dialectical and materialist conception of the history of masculinist science. In this analysis of Harding's work, the organizing categories as well as the main assumptions of the text are reconstructed for closer examination within the context of modern feminist critique of science and feminist theory in general. Although a postive review of Harding's text is presented, questions are raised concerning the adequacy of socialist feminist assumptions for such a project, the limitations of Harding's theorization of gender, and the appropriateness of “postmodernism” as a final category of residence.

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Roshdi Rashed

Contemporary Arab Affairs ◽

10.1525/caa.2018.000016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1-2) ◽

pp. 279-295

Author(s):

Mohammed Aref

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Great Book ◽

Mathematical Language ◽

Single Word ◽

Major Work ◽

Galileo Galilei ◽

Elementary Knowledge ◽

History Of ◽

The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

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Vyshnivetsky Castle Library of Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky – Historical Book Heritage and Object of Bibliological and Historical Reconstruction

Bibliotheca Lituana ◽

10.15388/bibllita.2014.3.15569 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 166-182

Author(s):

Iryna Tsiborovska-Rymarovych

Keyword(s):

18Th Century ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Cultural Images ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Printed Books ◽

History Of ◽

Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽

Definition Of

The article has as its object the elucidation of the history of the Vyshnivetsky Castle Library, definition of the content of its fund, its historical and cultural significance, correlation of the founder of the Library Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky with the Book.The Vyshnivetsky Castle Library was formed in the Ukrainian historical region of Volyn’, in the Vyshnivets town – “family nest” of the old Ukrainian noble family of the Vyshnivetskies under the “Korybut” coat of arm. The founder of the Library was Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky (1680–1744) – Grand Hetman and Grand Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilno Voievoda. He was a politician, an erudite and great bibliophile. In the 30th–40th of the 18th century the main Prince’s residence Vyshnivets became an important centre of magnate’s culture in Rich Pospolyta. M. S. Vyshnivetsky’s contemporaries from the noble class and clergy knew quite well about his library and really appreciated it. According to historical documents 5 periods are defined in the Library’s history. In the historical sources the first place is occupied by old-printed books of Library collection and 7 Library manuscript catalogues dating from 1745 up to the 1835 which give information about quantity and topical structures of Library collection.The Library is a historical and cultural symbol of the Enlightenment epoch. The Enlightenment and those particular concepts and cultural images pertaining to that epoch had their effect on the formation of Library’s fund. Its main features are as follow: comprehensive nature of the stock, predominance of French eighteenth century editions, presence of academic books and editions on orientalistics as well as works of the ideologues of the Enlightenment and new kinds of literature, which generated as a result of this movement – encyclopaedias, encyclopaedian dictionaries, almanacs, etc. Besides the universal nature of its stock books on history, social and political thought, fiction were dominating.The reconstruction of the history of Vyshnivetsky’s Library, the historical analysis of the provenances in its editions give us better understanding of the personality of its owners and in some cases their philanthropic activities, and a better ability to identify the role of this Library in the culture life of society in a certain epoch.

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The Question of Authority: Deracinating Race, Repositioning Religion, and Regenerating Gender in the History of African American Islam

Comparative Islamic Studies ◽

10.1558/cis.v4i4.1-4.2.213 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (1-2) ◽

pp. 213-227

Author(s):

Rosemary Hicks

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Review Essay ◽

Oxford University ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

American Islam ◽

African American Islam ◽

Oxford University Press

A review essay devoted to Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman A. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2005. 256 pages. Hb. $29.95/£22.50, ISBN-13: 9780195180817.

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