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Children and Youth in a New Nation.
In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican expe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Children and youth in America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: No Greater Distinction: American Children and the Revolution; 1. Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution: The Effects of War on Society; 2. Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia; 3. In Franklin's Footsteps: News Carriers and Postboys in the Revolution and Early Republic; PART II: Finding a Place to Belong: Raising Ideal Children; 4. French and American Childhoods: St. Louis in the Early Republic; 5. Growing up on the Middle Ground: Bicultural Creeks on the Early American Frontier.
- 6. A Child Shall Lead Them: Children and New Religious Groups in the Early RepublicPART III: Taking a Flying Leap: Educating Young Republicans; 7. "A Few Thoughts in Vindication of Female Eloquence": The Case for the Education of Republican Women; 8. "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": The Cultural Work of Early National Schoolbooks; PART IV: A Hard World: Child Welfare and Health Reform; 9. Children of the Public: Poor and Orphaned Minors in the Southwest Borderlands; 10. Schooling and Child Health in Antebellum New England; PART V: Documents.
- 11. A Teenager Goes Visiting: The Diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull (1835, 1837)12. "Though the Means Were Scanty": Excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham's Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life (1852); 13. A Stolen Life: Excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847); Questions for Consideration; Suggested Readings; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.