LEADER 04191nam 22005655 450 001 9910462629003321 005 20211217014350.0 010 $a0-8122-0232-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202328 035 $a(CKB)2670000000419278 035 $a(OCoLC)861529466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10757354 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101952 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128361 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101952 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10048515 035 $a(PQKB)11454097 035 $a(DE-B1597)449090 035 $a(OCoLC)51322177 035 $a(OCoLC)979576179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442254 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000419278 100 $a20190708d2013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Childhoods /$fJoseph E. Illick 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51066-0 311 0 $a0-8122-1807-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPart I. Early America --$tChapter 1. American Indian Childhood --$tChapter 2. European American Childhood --$tChapter 3. African American Childhood --$tPart II. Industrial America --$tChapter 4. Urban Middle-Class Childhood --$tChapter 5. Urban Working-Class Childhood --$tPart III. Modern America --$t6. Suburban Childhood --$tChapter 7. Inner-City and Rural Childhoods --$tEpilogue --$tA Note on Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In American Childhoods, Joseph Illick brings together his own extensive research and a synthesis of literature from a range of disciplines to present the first comprehensive cross-cultural history of childhood in America. Beginning with American Indians, European settlers, and African slaves and their differing perceptions of how children should be raised, American Childhoods moves to the nineteenth century and the rise of industrialization to introduce the offspring of the emerging urban middle and working classes. Illick reveals that while rural and working-class children continued to toil from an early age, as they had in the colonial period, childhood among the urban middle class became recognized as a distinct phase of life, with a continuing emphasis on gender differences. Illick then discusses how the public school system was created in the nineteenth century to assimilate immigrants and discipline all children, and observes its major role in age-grouping children as well as drawing working-class youngsters from factories to classrooms. At the same time, such social problems as juvenile delinquency were confronted by private charities and, ultimately, by the state. Concluding his sweeping study, the author presents the progeny of suburban, inner-city, and rural Americans in the twentieth century, highlighting the growing disparity of opportunities available to children of decaying cities and the booming suburbs. Consistently making connections between economics, psychology, commerce, sociology, and anthropology, American Childhoods is rich with insight into the elusive world of children. Grounded firmly in social and cultural history and written in lucid, accessible prose, the book demonstrates how children's experiences have varied dramatically through time and across space, and how the idea of childhood has meant vastly different things to different groups in American society. 606 $aChildren$xHistory$zUnited States 606 $aChildren$xSocial conditions$zUnited States 615 0$aChildren$xHistory 615 0$aChildren$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.230973 700 $aIllick$b Joseph E.$01036984 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462629003321 996 $aAmerican Childhoods$92457641 997 $aUNINA