The World of Children : : Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment / / ed. by Andreas Weiß, Simone Lässig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Matthew O.,; Belgum, Kirsten,; Fiedler, Maik,; Hamlin, David,; Lässig, Simone,; O’Sullivan, Emer,; Penny, H. Glenn,; Schleicher, Regina,; Schneider, Miriam Magdalena,; Stornig, Katharina,; Weiß, Andreas,
• HerausgeberIn: Lässig, Simone,; Weiß, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in German History ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Children, the Nation, and the World -- Part I Official Knowledge -- Chapter 1 New Words and the New World: Language and the Transnational Legacy of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere -- Chapter 2 Images of Land and Sea: Experiencing the World as Adventure through Theodor Dielitz’s Travel Anthologies for Young Readers, 1841–62 -- Chapter 3 World Knowledge in Textbooks for French-Language Teaching in the Nineteenth Century in Germany -- Chapter 4 The World at War in German Textbooks: Knowledge of the World Conveyed in Representations of War -- Chapter 5 When Nippon Became Prussian: The German Image of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Textbooks -- Part II Literary Knowledge -- Chapter 6 Thrilling Hearts and Winning Minds: The Representation of Monarchy, Navy, and Empire in Nineteenth- Century Juvenile Adventure Fiction -- Chapter 7 Knowing Others as Selves: German Children and American Indians -- Chapter 8 “Don’t You Take Pity on Your Little Brothers and Sisters in China?” Missionary Literature for Children and the Distribution of Relational Knowledge in Imperial Germany -- Part III Knowledge in Entertainment -- Chapter 9 Around the World in a Jiffy: Humorous Treatments of Around-the-World Travel in German Children’s Books and Games -- Chapter 10 The Rise of the Trading Card Collecting the World before World War I -- Chapter 11 A World Made for Exploration: Germans and Their Toys, 1890–1914 -- Conclusion. Kaleidoscope and Lens: Re-envisioning the Past through the History of Knowledge -- Index