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Article: Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2004
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Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000. Edited by Mark Jackson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. xiii plus 293 pp. $84.95).
Mark Jackson has brought together a solid if somewhat uneven collection of twelve papers offering historical approaches to the study of infanticide, which result in part from a 1998 conference on the subject. Though the book's title might seem to imply a systematic treatment of infanticide across a wide span of time and space, eight of the twelve studies focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, while nine of the twelve studies concentrate largely or exclusively on England. Given this relatively narrow framing, ...