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Children and Youth in a New Nation /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Children and youth in America.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| 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.