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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816360903321

Autore

Downs Laura Lee <1955->

Titolo

Childhood in the promised land : working-class movements and the colonies de vacances in France, 1880-1960 / / Laura Lee Downs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-283-06415-4

9786613064158

0-8223-8396-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

371.826/23/0944

371.826260944

Soggetti

Vacation schools - France - History

Poor children - Education - France - History

City children - Education - France - History

Children - France - Social conditions

Labor movement - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-402) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: The Origins of the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1881-1914 -- 2 Toward a Pedagogy of Child Leisure: The Politics of Catholic Defense, 1882-1914 -- 3 Family Placement in a Socialist Mode: The Foundation of the Colonie Municipale of Suresnes -- 4 Inside the Nievre Colonie, 1923-1939 -- 5 Les Lendemains Qui Chantent: Social Movements and Pedagogical Innovation in the Colonies de Vacances during the Popular Front -- 6 Municipal Communism and the Politics of Childhood: Ivry-sur-Seine, 1925-1960.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of childhood in French communist, republican, socialist and Catholic vacation camps, analyzing the influence of politicized camp experience on children's development as citizens and moral agents.