Huck's raft : a history of American childhood /
Steven Mintz.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
- xi, 445 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-436) and index.
1. Children of the Covenant -- 2. Red, White, and Black in Colonial America -- 3. Sons and Daughters of Liberty -- 4. Inventing the Middle-Class Child -- 5. Growing Up in Bondage -- 6. Childhood Battles of the Civil War -- 7. Laboring Children -- 8. Save the Child -- 9. Children under the Magnifying Glass -- 10. New to the Promised Land -- 11. Revolt of Modern Youth -- 12. Coming of Age in the Great Depression -- 13. Mobilizing Children for World War II -- 14. In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood -- 15. Youthquake -- 16. Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood -- 17. The Unfinished Century of the Child.
0674015088 (alk. paper)
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Children--History.--United States Child rearing--History.--United States Children--Social conditions.--United States