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Children and youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era /

"In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marten, James Alan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Children and youth in America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Shaping the future: institutions and the law
  • Playing progressively? Race, reform, and playful pedagogies in the origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park, 1857-1904 / Deborah Valentine
  • Model schools and field days: Colorado fuel and iron's construction of education and recreation for children, 1901-1918
  • Of families or individuals? Southern child workers and the progressive crusade for child labor regulation, 1899-1920 / Gwendoline Alphonso
  • "I was so glad to be in school here": religious organizations and the school on Ellis Island in the early 1900s / Claire B. Gallagher
  • The trajectory of benevolence: progressivism in the 'Little Colonel' books / Sarah E. Clere
  • Part II. Managing change: children, youth, and families
  • Willful disobedience: young people and school authority in the nineteenth-century United States / James D. Schmidt
  • The contested meanings of child marriage in the turn-of-the-century United States / Nicholas L. Syrett
  • Sex, abortion, and prostitution in the lives of Gilded Age Chicago girls / Mary Linehan
  • Ohio departures: George as progressive youth in Sherwood Anderson's 'Winesburg, Ohio' / John James and Tom Ue
  • Fit body, fit mind: Scandinavian youth and the value of work, education, and physical fitness in Progressive-era Chicago / Erika K. Jackson
  • Duty and destiny: A progressive reformer's coming of age in the Gilded Age / Anya Jabour.