The Child Reader, 1700-1840

The Child Reader, 1700-1840
Author: M. O. Grenby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521196442

This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established.

Cobwebs to Catch Flies

Cobwebs to Catch Flies
Author: Joyce Irene Whalley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780520029316

Developments in juvenile literature, social customs, fashion styles, and the changing role of children in society are reflected in illustrations from reading, alphabet, counting, religious, social studies, and science books

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
Author: Eleanor Robson
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 927
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199213127

This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.