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Titolo: |
Children and war : a historical anthology / / edited by James Marten ; foreword by Robert Coles
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.6/6/083 |
Soggetto topico: | Children and war |
Altri autori: |
MartenJames Alan
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Childhood, memory, and the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams -- "After the war I am going to put myself a sailor" : geography, writing, and race in the letters of free children of color in Civil War New Orleans / Molly Mitchell -- Flowers of evil : mass media, child psychology, and the struggle for Russia's future during the First World War / Aaron J. Cohen -- Imagining Anzac : children's memories of the killing fields of the Great War / Bruce C. Scates -- Rescue and trauma : Jewish children and the kindertransports during the Holocaust / Eric J. Sterling -- Mama, are we going to die? : America's children confront the Cuban missile crisis / Chris O'Brien -- Bereavement in a war zone : Liberia in the 1990s / Cynthia B. Eriksson and Elizabeth A. Rupp -- Representations of war and martial heroes in English elementary school reading and rituals, 1885-1914 / Stephen Heathorn -- The child in the flying machine : childhood and aviation in the First World War / Guillaume de Syon -- World friendship : children, parents, and peace education in America between the wars / Diana Selig -- Ghosts and the machine : teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921 / Stephen E. Lewis -- Japanese children and the culture of death, January-August 1945 / Owen Griffiths -- The antifascist narrative : memory lessons in the schools of the Soviet occupation zone, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing -- Humanitarian sympathy for children in times of war and the history of children's rights, 1919-1959 / Dominique Marshall -- "These unfortunate children" : sons and daughters of the Regiment in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Thomas Cardoza -- Children and the New Zealand wars : an exploration / Jeanine Marie Graham -- Stolen generations and vanishing Indians : the removal of indigenous children as a weapon of war in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940 / Victoria Haskins and Margaret D. Jacobs -- "Baptized in blood" : children in the time of the Sandino rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder -- "Too young for a uniform" : children's war work on the Iowa farm front, 1941-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian -- Against their will : the use and abuse of British children during the Second World War / Penny Elaine Starns and Martin L. Parsons -- Innocent victims and heroic defenders : children and the Siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. |
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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8147-5998-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827573303321 |
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