Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Investing in Children: Lyon’s Charitable Community 22
7. The Lyonnais Laboratory: Educational Experimentation 44
8. Children Spread Reform 78
9. Parisian Children of the State 111
10. Trafficking in Children: Pronatalism and Population in North America 146
11. Children of the Empire: Cruxes of Imperial Strategy 166
12. Epilogue: A Revolution in Childhood 200
13. Notes 211
14. Index 251