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Author Downs, Laura Lee, 1955- author.

Title Childhood in the promised land : working-class movements and the colonies de vacances in France, 1880-1960 / Laura Lee Downs
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 411 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 1 Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: The Origins of the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1881-1914 -- 2 Toward a Pedagogy of Child Leisure: The Politics of Catholic Defense, 1882-1914 -- 3 Family Placement in a Socialist Mode: The Foundation of the Colonie Municipale of Suresnes -- 4 Inside the Nievre Colonie, 1923-1939 -- 5 Les Lendemains Qui Chantent: Social Movements and Pedagogical Innovation in the Colonies de Vacances during the Popular Front -- 6 Municipal Communism and the Politics of Childhood: Ivry-sur-Seine, 1925-1960
Summary A study of childhood in French communist, republican, socialist and Catholic vacation camps, analyzing the influence of politicized camp experience on children's development as citizens and moral agents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-402) and index
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Subject Vacation schools -- France -- History
Poor children -- Education -- France -- History
City children -- Education -- France -- History
Children -- France -- Social conditions
Labor movement -- France -- History
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
EDUCATION -- History.
Children -- Social conditions
City children -- Education
Labor movement
Poor children -- Education
Vacation schools
Arbeiterbewegung
Arbeiterklasse
Kind
Jugend
Ferienlager
Vakantiekampen.
Kinderen.
Armenzorg.
1880-1889.
1890-1899.
1900-1949.
1950-1959.
Colonie de vacances.
Enfant pauvre.
Histoire.
Milieu urbain.
Mouvement ouvrier.
France
Frankreich
France.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383963
0822383969