The End of American Childhood : A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child /
"The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual succe...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Young in America
- Childhood and parenting in the new republic: Sowing the seeds of independence, 1800-1860
- Children adrift: Responding to crisis, 1850-1890
- What mother needs to know: The new science of childhood, 1890-1940
- A wider world: Adolescence, immigration, and schooling, 1920-1960
- All our children: Race, rebellion, and social change, 1950-1990
- What's the matter with kids today?
- Epilogue.