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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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,
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
  • Introduction
  • 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 81 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
  • Introduction
  • 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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