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Children and War [[electronic resource] ] : A Historical Anthology



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Autore: Marten James Visualizza persona
Titolo: Children and War [[electronic resource] ] : A Historical Anthology Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : NYU Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
Disciplina: 303.6/6/083
Soggetto topico: Children and war
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Child & Youth Development
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: ColesRobert  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Memory and Meaning; 1 Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution; 2 "After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor"; 3 Flowers of Evil: Mass Media, Child Psychology, and theStruggle for Russia's Future during the First World War; 4 Imagining Anzac; 5 Rescue and Trauma: Jewish Children and theKindertransports during the Holocaust; 6 Mama, Are We Going to Die? America's ChildrenConfront the Cuban Missile Crisis; 7 Bereavement in a War Zone; Lessons and Literature
8 Representations of War and Martial Heroes in EnglishElementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885-19149 The Child in the Flying Machine; 10 World Friendship; 11 Ghosts and the Machine; 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death,January-August 1945; 13 The Antifascist Narrative; 14 Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times ofWar and the History of Children's Rights, 1919-1959; Actors and Victims; 15 "These Unfortunate Children"; 16 Children and the New Zealand Wars; 17 Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians; 18 "Baptized in Blood""; 19 "Too Young for a Uniform"; 20 Against Their Will
21 Innocent Victims and Heroic DefendersEpilogue; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: ""This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep.""- Canadian Journal of History. The American media has recently ""discovered"" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the use of under-age soldiers. These and numerous other stories and programs have shown that the number of children impacted by war as victims, casualties, and participants has mounted drastically du
Titolo autorizzato: Children and War  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-5998-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454229703321
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