Huck's Raft A History of American Childhood

Name: Huck's Raft A History of American Childhood
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ISBN: 9780674019980

ISBN-10: 0674019989

ISBN-13: 9780674019980

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steven Mintz

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Steven Mintz is Executive Director of the Institute for Transformational Learning at the University of Texas.



Preface


Prologue



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


Notes


Index