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Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M., Awo Sarpong, and Charles Quist-Adade (eds.). 2019. New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations and Understandings. Wilmington: Vernon Press.

A welcome addition to the canon of Childhood Studies, this edited collection offers accounts of childhoods across the continent from scholars in both the social sciences and humanities.

Ford, Eileen Mary. 2018. Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City. New York: Bloomsbury.

A study based on archival sources of the role of the state (especially through the provision of primary schooling), the media and the Catholic Church in shaping discourses of childhood and children’s lives from 1934 to 1968, the year of the student movement and the Tlatelolco massacre by the Mexican army. One of the few historical studies of Mexican childhoods.

Montgomery, Heather (ed.). 2013. Local Childhoods, Global Issues. 2nd edn. Bristol: Policy Press.

An excellent introduction to global perspectives on childhood framed by the core themes of poverty, health, violence and resilience. Edited by a key scholar in the anthropology of childhood who contributes three of the six chapters.

Pomfret, David M. 2016. Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Covering the period from the 1880s until the Second World War, Youth and Empire conveys the importance of the governance of childhood to the expansion of European imperial power. It shows that ‘[w]hile the coercive technologies of gunboat and garrison were never entirely superseded, they were complemented by assertions of superiority in the field of culture focusing upon children, the family and new domestic norms’ (p. 17).