Italy in the Age of Pinocchio: Children and Danger in the Liberal Era

By Carl Ipsen

Book Overview

Detailing the development of a new Western attitude to children and their place in society, this book tells the story of Italy's forgotten children at the end of the nineteenth century - foundlings, street children, factory and mine workers, emigrants and delinquents - and illustrates the efforts of the recently unified Italian state to help them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349534269
• ISBN13: 9781349534265
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"