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Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century /

Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951-

Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden Rutgers University - Camden. - xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.

9781108415002 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781108400077 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017054703

HQ769 / .G65 2018

649/.1

WS 11.AA1

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