American Childhoods

Informationen zum Autor Joseph E. Illick is Professor of History at San Francisco State University and author of Colonial Pennsylvania: A History and At Liberty: The Story of a Community and a Generation. Klappentext "Synthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement. . . . This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood."--"Choice" Zusammenfassung "Synthesizing an enormous amount of secondary source material, this book is a stunning achievement... This book would make an ideal classroom text and should be read by anyone interested in the history of childhood."-Choice Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I. EARLY AMERICA Chapter 1. American Indian Childhood Chapter 2. European American Childhood Chapter 3. African American Childhood PART II. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA Chapter 4. Urban Middle-Class Childhood Chapter 5. Urban Working-Class Childhood PART III. MODERN AMERICA Chapter 6. Suburban Childhood Chapter 7. Inner-City and Rural Childhoods Epilogue A Note on Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Joseph E Illick, Joseph E. Illick
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2002
• EAN: 9780812218077
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1807-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Geschichte, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies