Description |
xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Children and youth in America |
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Children and youth in America.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index. |
Contents |
Foreword / Philip J Greven -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / James Marten -- pt. 1. Race and colonization -- 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood : religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R. Todd Romero -- 3. Imperial ideas, colonial realities : enslaved children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 / Audra Abee Diptee -- Documents -- "The younger sort reverence the elder" : a pilgrim describes Indian childrearing -- "I have often been overcome while thinking on it" : a slave boy's life -- pt. 2. Family and society -- 4. Sibling relations in early American childhoods : a cross-cultural analysis / C. Dallett Hemphill -- 5. "I shall beat you, so that the devil shall laugh at it" : children, violence, and the courts in New Amsterdam / Mariah Adin -- 6. "Improved" and "very promising children" : growing up rich in eighteenth-century South Carolina / Darcy Fryer -- Documents -- "A dutiful and affectionate daughter" : Eliza Lucas of South Carolina -- "A most agreeable family" : Philip Vickers Fithian meets the Carters -- |
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pt. 3. Cares and tribulations -- 7. "Decrepit in their early youth" : English children in Holland and Plymouth plantation / John J. Navin -- 8. Idiocy and the construction of competence in colonial Massachusetts / Parnel Wickham -- 9. "My constant attention on my sick child" : the fragility of family life in the world of Elizabeth Drinker / Helena M. Wall -- Documents -- "I had eight birds hatcht in one nest" : Anne Bradstreet writes about parenthood -- pt. 4. Becoming Americans -- 10. From German catholic girls to colonial American women : girlhood in the French gulf south and the British mid-Atlantic colonies / Lauren Ann Kattner -- 11. "Let both sexes be carefully instructed" : educating youth in colonial Philadelphia / Keith Pacholl -- 12. From saucy boys to sons of liberty : politicizing youth in pre-revolutionary Boston / John L. Bell -- Documents -- "Though I was often beaten for my play" : the autobiography of John Barnard -- "A bookish inclination" " Benjamin Franklin grows up -- In search of the historical child : questions for consideration -- Suggested readings -- About the contributors -- Index. |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 16th century.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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America -- Social life and customs.
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America -- Social conditions.
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Children -- America -- History -- 18th century.
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Added Author |
Marten, James Alan.
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ISBN |
0814757154 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814757154 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814757162 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814757161 paperback alkaline paper |
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