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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marten, James Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Children and youth in America.
Temas:
1700-1899
Child welfare > United States > History.
Youth > United States > History > 19th century.
Youth > United States > History > 18th century.
Children > United States > History > 19th century.
Children > United States > History > 18th century.
Child psychology.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Child Rearing > history
Adolescent Behavior
Child Behavior
Child Welfare > history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Jeunesse > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Jeunesse > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Enfants > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enfants > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Enfants > Psychologie.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Medicine
Child psychology
Child welfare
Children
Youth
Kind
Jugend
United States
USA
"Multi-User"
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Paul S. Boyer
  • Introduction / James Marten
  • No greater distinction: American children and the Revolution
  • Boy soldiers of the American Revolution: the effects of war on society / Caroline Cox
  • Martha Jefferson and the American Revolution in Virginia / Cynthia A. Kierner
  • In Franklin's footsteps: news carriers and postboys in the Revolution and early republic / Vincent DiGirolamo
  • Finding a place to belong: raising ideal children
  • French and American childhoods: St. Louis in the early republic / Martha Saxton
  • Growing up on the middle ground: bicultural Creeks on the early American frontier / Andrew K. Frank
  • A child shall lead them: children and new religious groups in the early republic / Todd M. Brenneman
  • Taking a flying leap: educating young republicans
  • "A few thoughts in vindication of female eloquence": the case for the education of republican women / A. Kristen Foster
  • "Pictures of the Vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame": the cultural work of early national schoolbooks / Gretchen A. Adams
  • A hard world: child welfare and health reform
  • Children of the public: poor and orphaned minors in the Southwest borderlands / Nancy Zey
  • Schooling and child health in the antebellum New England / Rebecca R. Noel
  • Documents
  • A teenager goes visiting: the diaries of Louisa Jane Trumbull (1835, 1837) / Holly V. Izard and Caroline Fuller Sloat
  • "Though the means were scanty": excerpts from Joseph T. Buckingham's Personal memoirs and recollections of editorial life (1852) / Vincent DiGirolamo
  • A stolen life: excerpts from the Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself (1847) / James Marten
  • Questions for consideration
  • Suggested readings
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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