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Small stories of war : children, youth, and conflict in Canada and beyond /

"Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lorenzkowski, Barbara, 1969- (Editor ), Alexander, Kristine, 1979- (Editor ), Burtch, Andrew Paul, 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
Colección:Carleton library series ; 264.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • SMALL STORIES OF WAR
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One Global Wars
  • 1 Children's Images of War from the German Home Front, 1914-18
  • 2 Sensing War: Childhood Memories of the Wartime Atlantic, 1939-45
  • 3 "What Am I to Do to Save My Children?": Canadian Children in Civil Defence Planning
  • Part Two Family and Community
  • 4 Children, Soldiers, and Correspondence in Canada's First World War
  • 5 Deconstructing a Canadian Military Family: The Taylor Mother and Son Remember the Cold War
  • 6 From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island
  • Part Three Telling Difficult Stories
  • 7 Adolescents during Canada's Afghanistan Mission
  • 8 The Intergenerational Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence: Children Born of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda
  • 9 Politics and Emotion in Drawings by Children in Australian Immigration Detention
  • Part Four In the Spotlight
  • Editors' Introduction
  • 10 "Dear Daddy": Children, Writing, and the First World War
  • 11 Writing "Home": Letters from British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada during the Second World War
  • 12 Charting the Social Spaces of Childhood in 1940s Halifax
  • 13 Surviving the Peace: Mine Awareness Education in the Former Yugoslavia
  • 14 "My Two Families": Experiences of Refugee Youth
  • 15 "Donkeys Can't Fly on Planes": Intergenerational Storytelling and Artwork
  • Figures
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index