Title The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 447 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: is consent credible? -- The hidden dynamic of childhood consent -- Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure -- Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of -- Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen -- Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age -- Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Children and politics -- History.
	Children and politics.
	History.
	Child rearing -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Child rearing.
	United States.
	Liberalism -- United States.
	Liberalism.
	Citizenship -- United States.
	Citizenship.
	Consensus (Social sciences)
	Consensus (Social sciences)
	Agent (Philosophy)
	Agent (Philosophy)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Block, James E. Crucible of consent. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012 9780674051942 (DLC) 2011022862 (OCoLC)709670295
ISBN	9780674062610 (electronic book)
	0674062612 (electronic book)
	9780674051942
	0674051947

Title The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.

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