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Huck's raft: a history of American childhood

Steven Mintz c2004 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780674015081 (hardcover)
  • 9780674019980 (paper)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Prologue (page 1)
  • 1 Children of the Covenant (page 7)
  • 2 Red, White, and Black in Colonial America (page 32)
  • 3 Sons and Daughters of Liberty (page 53)
  • 4 Inventing the Middle-Class Child (page 75)
  • 5 Growing Up in Bondage (page 94)
  • 6 Childhood Battles of the Civil War (page 118)
  • 7 Laboring Children (page 133)
  • 8 Save the Child (page 154)
  • 9 Children under the Magnifying Glass (page 185)
  • 10 New to the Promised Land (page 200)
  • 11 Revolt of Modern Youth (page 213)
  • 12 Coming of Age in the Great Depression (page 233)
  • 13 Mobilizing Children for World War II (page 254)
  • 14 In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood (page 275)
  • 15 Youthquake (page 310)
  • 16 Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood (page 335)
  • 17 The Unfinished Century of the Child (page 372)
  • Notes (page 387)
  • Index (page 437)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RAH 33.2 (Jun. 2005): 211-216 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v033/33.2marten.html
JWoH 20.2 (Summer 2008): 183-191 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/v020/20.2.tanenhaus.html
JIH 37.4 (Spring 2007): 633-634 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v037/37.4carp.html
JSocH 40.1 (Fall 2006): 219-222 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v040/40.1zuckerman.html
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