| Description |
xxv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
In search of the historical child : miniature adulthood and youth in colonial New England / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- "From the cradle to the coffin " : parental bereavement and the shadow of infant damnation in Puritan society / Peter G. Slater -- Autonomy and affection : parents and children in eighteenth-century Chesapeake families / Daniel Blake Smith -- Family history and demographic transition / Robert V. Wells -- Evangelical child rearing in the age of Jackson : Francis Wayland's views on when and how to subdue the willfulness of children / William G. McLoughlin -- Infant abandonment in early nineteenth-century New York City : three cases / Paul A. Gilje -- Socializing middle-class children : institutions, fables, and work values in nineteenth century America / Daniel T. Rodgers -- Families and foster care : Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century / Priscilla Ferguson Clement. |
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Judge Ben Lindsey and the juvenile court movement, 1901-4 / D'Ann Campbell -- The play of slave children in the plantation communities of the old South, 1820-60 / David K. Wiggins -- The battle over the child : child apprenticeship and the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina / Rebecca J. Scott -- Federal boarding schools and the Indian child : 1920-60 / Margaret Connell Szasz -- Childhood in an urban Black ghetto : two life histories / Melvin D. Williams -- Death and the family / Peter Uhlenberg -- Uncle Sam and the children : history of government involvement in child rearing / Barbara Finkelstein -- The stoop is the world / John G. Clark -- Mother, the invention of necessity : Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and child care / Nancy Pottishman Weiss. |
| Subject |
Children -- United States -- History.
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Children. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Children -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Children. |
| Added Author |
Hiner, N. Ray.
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Hawes, Joseph M.
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| ISBN |
0252012097 alkaline paper |
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0252012186 paperback alkaline paper |
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