Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era /

Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / / ed. by James Marten.

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In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Alphonso, Gwendoline,
Clere, Sarah E.,
Fass, Paula S.,
Gallagher, Claire B.,
Jabour, Anya,
Jackson, Erika K.,
James, John,
Linehan, Mary,
Marten, James,
Montoya, Fawn-Amber,
Schmidt, James D.,
Syrett, Nicholas L.,
Ue, Tom,
Valentine, Deborah,
TeilnehmendeR:
Fass, Paula S.
HerausgeberIn:
Marten, James,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Children and Youth in America ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Shaping the future: Institutions and the law
  • 1. Playing progressively?: race, reform, and playful pedagogies in the origins of Philadelphia’s Starr garden recreation park, 1857–1904
  • 2. Model schools and field days: Colorado fuel and iron’s construction of education and recreation for children, 1901–1918
  • 3. Of families or individuals?: southern child workers and the progressive crusade for child labor regulation, 1899–1920
  • 4. “I was so glad to be in school here”: religious organizations and the school on Ellis island in the early 1900s
  • 5. The trajectory of benevolence: progressivism in the little colonel books
  • Part II. Managing change: children, youth, and families
  • 6. Willful disobedience: young people and school authority in the nineteenth-century united states
  • 7. The contested meanings of child marriage in the turn-of-the-century united states
  • 8. Sex, abortion, and prostitution in the lives of gilded age Chicago girls
  • 9. Ohio departures: George as progressive youth in Sherwood Anderson’s winesburg, Ohio
  • 10. Fit body, fit mind: Scandinavian youth and the value of work, education, and physical fitness in progressive-era Chicago
  • 11. Duty and destiny: a progressive reformer’s coming of age in the gilded age
  • Documents. Thinking with their heads
  • Questions for consideration
  • References
  • About the contributors
  • Index

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