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Mause, Lloyd de, editor. The history of childhood : the untold story of child abuse. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1988. Paperback, VG. Card covers, sunned to spine and edges, with light shelfwear to edges and corners and a little age-discolouration to the white background on reverse. Binding strong. iv, 450pp. Creasing to rear endpaper. Some underlining to p.41, otherwise contents clean and bright. "Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in many imaginable and some almost unimaginable ways by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders. The present volume abounds in evidence of all kinds, from all periods and peoples. The story is monotonously painful, but it is high time that it should be told and that it should be taken into account" (from the Foreword). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.