Children and War : : A Historical Anthology / / ed. by James Marten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blessing, Benita,; Cardoza, Thomas,; Cohen, Aaron J.,; Coles, Robert,; Eriksson, Cynthia B.,; Graham, Jeanine Marie,; Griffiths, Owen,; Haskins, Victoria,; Heathorn, Stephen,; Jacobs, Margaret D.,; Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.,; Lewis, Stephen E.,; Marshall, Dominique,; Marten, James,; Mitchell, Molly,; Ossian, Lisa L.,; O’Brien, Chris,; Parsons, Martin L.,; Rupp, Elizabeth A.,; Scates, Bruce C.,; Schroeder, Michael J.,; Selig, Diana,; Starns, Penny Elaine,; Sterling, Eric J.,; Syon, Guillaume de,; Williams, Elizabeth McKee,
• TeilnehmendeR: Coles, Robert.
• HerausgeberIn: Marten, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."-Canadian Journal of History The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was publ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Memory and Meaning
• Chapter One. Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution
• Chapter Two “After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor” Geography,Writing, and Race in the Letters of Free Children of Color in Civil War New Orleans
• Chapter Three. Flowers of Evil Mass Media, Child Psychology, and the Struggle for Russia’s Future during the First World War
• Chapter Four. Imagining Anzac Children’s Memories of the Killing Fields of the Great War
• Chapter Five. Rescue and Trauma Jewish Children and the Kindertransports during the Holocaust
• Chapter Six. Mama, Are We Going to Die? America’s Children Confront the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Chapter Seven. Bereavement in a War Zone Liberia in the 1990s
• Lessons and Literature
• Chapter Eight. Representations of War and Martial Heroes in English Elementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885–1914
• Chapter Nine. The Child in the Flying Machine Childhood and Aviation in the First World War
• Chapter Ten. World Friendship Children, Parents, and Peace Education in America between the Wars
• Chapter Eleven. Ghosts and the Machine Teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921
• Chapter Twelve. Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January–August 1945
• Chapter Thirteen. The Antifascist Narrative Memory Lessons in the Schools of the Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945–1949
• Chapter Fourteen. Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times of War and the History of Children’s Rights, 1919–1959
• Actors and Victims
• Chapter Fifteen “These Unfortunate Children” Sons and Daughters of the Regiment in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
• Chapter Sixteen. Children and the New Zealand Wars An Exploration
• Chapter Seventeen. Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians The Removal of Indigenous Children as a Weapon of War in the United States and Australia, 1870–1940
• Chapter Eighteen “Baptized in Blood” Children in the Time of the Sandino Rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927–1934
• Chapter Nineteen “Too Young for a Uniform” Children’s War Work on the Iowa Farm Front, 1941–1945
• Chapter Twenty. Against Their Will The Use and Abuse of British Children during the Second World War
• Chapter Twenty-One. Innocent Victims and Heroic Defenders Children and the Siege of Leningrad
• Epilogue. The Girl in the Picture
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index