The Resource Huck's raft : a history of American childhood, Steven Mintz
Huck's raft : a history of American childhood, Steven Mintz
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- Summary
- Publisher description: Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children's lives through history--the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death--he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves. Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom--like the daring adventure on Huck's raft
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 445 p.
- Contents
-
- Children of the covenant
- Red, white, and black in colonial America
- Sons and daughters of liberty
- Inventing the middle-class child
- Growing up in bondage
- Childhood battles of the Civil War
- Laboring children
- Save the child
- Children under the magnifying glass
- New to the promised land
- Revolt of modern youth
- Coming of age in the Great Depression
- Mobilizing children for World War II
- In pursuit of the perfect childhood
- Youthquake
- Parental panics and the reshaping of childhood
- The unfinished century of the child
- Isbn
- 9780674015081
- Label
- Huck's raft : a history of American childhood
- Title
- Huck's raft
- Title remainder
- a history of American childhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Mintz
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher description: Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of nineteenth-century farms and factories, from the cosseted cherubs of the Victorian era to the confident consumers of our own. He explores their role in revolutionary upheaval, westward expansion, industrial growth, wartime mobilization, and the modern welfare state. Revealing the harsh realities of children's lives through history--the rigors of physical labor, the fear of chronic ailments, the heartbreak of premature death--he also acknowledges the freedom children once possessed to discover their world as well as themselves. Whether at work or play, at home or school, the transition from childhood to adulthood has required generations of Americans to tackle tremendously difficult challenges. Today, adults impose ever-increasing demands on the young for self-discipline, cognitive development, and academic achievement, even as the influence of the mass media and consumer culture has grown. With a nod to the past, Mintz revisits an alternative to the goal-driven realities of contemporary childhood. An odyssey of psychological self-discovery and growth, this book suggests a vision of childhood that embraces risk and freedom--like the daring adventure on Huck's raft
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mintz, Steven
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ792.U5
- LC item number
- M57 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Children
- Child rearing
- Children
- United States
- Label
- Huck's raft : a history of American childhood, Steven Mintz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-436) and index
- Contents
- Children of the covenant -- Red, white, and black in colonial America -- Sons and daughters of liberty -- Inventing the middle-class child -- Growing up in bondage -- Childhood battles of the Civil War -- Laboring children -- Save the child -- Children under the magnifying glass -- New to the promised land -- Revolt of modern youth -- Coming of age in the Great Depression -- Mobilizing children for World War II -- In pursuit of the perfect childhood -- Youthquake -- Parental panics and the reshaping of childhood -- The unfinished century of the child
- Control code
- 54543387
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 445 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674015081
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004042220
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Huck's raft : a history of American childhood, Steven Mintz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-436) and index
- Contents
- Children of the covenant -- Red, white, and black in colonial America -- Sons and daughters of liberty -- Inventing the middle-class child -- Growing up in bondage -- Childhood battles of the Civil War -- Laboring children -- Save the child -- Children under the magnifying glass -- New to the promised land -- Revolt of modern youth -- Coming of age in the Great Depression -- Mobilizing children for World War II -- In pursuit of the perfect childhood -- Youthquake -- Parental panics and the reshaping of childhood -- The unfinished century of the child
- Control code
- 54543387
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 445 p.
- Isbn
- 9780674015081
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004042220
- Other physical details
- ill.
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