Playing with History : : American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture /

Playing with History : : American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture / / Molly Rosner.

Since the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Rosner, Molly,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.) :; 26 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Made in America: The Rise of the American Toy Industry
  • 2 Dolling Up History: 1930s Antique Dolls and the Clark Doll Study
  • 3 “Gosh, It’s Exciting to Be an American”: The “Orange” and Landmark History Books during the Cold War
  • 4 Family Fun for Everyone?: Freedomland U.S.A., 1960–1964
  • 5 Selling Multicultural Girlhood: The American Girl Doll, 1986 to Present
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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