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Title Nineteenth century childhoods in interdisciplinary and international perspectives / edited by Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith A.B. Ellis
Published Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Childhood in the past monograph series ; volume 6
Childhood in the past monograph series ; v. 6.
Contents Introduction : 19th century childhoods in interdisciplinary and international perspectives / Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis -- 1. The manipulation of Indigenous imagery to represent Canadian childhood and nationhood in 19th century Canada / Loren Lerner -- 2. Laying the foundation of "modern childhood" in Russia : the "protection of motherhood and infancy" movement, 1890-1917 / Natalia Chernyaeva -- 3. Imagining futures : Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne women, children and history / Gina Ocasion -- 4. Becoming Canadian adults : British childhood emigration to Canada in the late 19th century / Steven J. Taylor -- 5. Transported beyond the seas : criminal juveniles / Emma Watkins -- 6. "He knows a good thing when he sees it!" : advertising to children in the U.S., 1850-1900 / Jaclyn N. Schultz -- 7. Creating desire and little consumers : doll advertising in U.S. newspapers, 1860-1900 / Katherine Mumma and Jane Eva Baxter -- 8. Education, race and nation-building in an archipelago : 19th century Bahamian Out Island schools / John Burton -- 9. It takes a village : raising patriots in 19th century Romania / Ana Fumurescu -- 10. The Bedford Asylum : building for the "Industrious Child" in early 19th century Dublin / Katherine Fennelly -- 11. Nineteenth century institutional "education" : a spatial approach to assimilation and resistance at Hoopa Valley Indian School / Paulina F. Przystupa -- 12. "The lowness of stature, the leanness and the paleness" : childhood nutritional health in 19th century England / Holly Hunt-Watts, Janet Cade and Dawn M. Hadley -- 13. A tool for moral uplift : the sacralization and commemoration of a 19th century child actress / Shauna Vey
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes "This volume has its roots in the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) 8th annual international conference held at DePaul University in 2015"--Page x
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Subject Children -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Cross-cultural studies.
Child Welfare
Social Conditions -- history
History, 19th Century
Cross-Cultural Comparison
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Modern -- General.
Children -- Social conditions
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Cross-cultural studies
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Baxter, Jane Eva, 1971- editor.
Ellis, Meredith A. B., editor.
ISBN 9781785708442
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