Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony - Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895

Informationen zum Autor SE Duff is Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is on histories of childhood, sexuality, and medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Funded by a prestigious Research Career Advancement Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, her current project investigates histories of sex education in twentieth-century South Africa. Klappentext This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Zusammenfassung This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation! and traces the ways in which institutions! first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government! attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1. A Changing Church: Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism 2. Changing Childhoods: Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape 3. Raising Children for Christ: Childrearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time 4. The Crying Need: Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s 5. Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children's Relief Act

Table des matières

Contents 1. A Changing Church: Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism 2. Changing Childhoods: Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape 3. Raising Children for Christ: Childrearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time 4. The Crying Need: Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s 5. Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children's Relief Act

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: S Duff, S. Duff, S. E. Duff, SE Duff
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137380937
• ISBN: 978-1-137-38093-7
• Pages: 217
• Thèmes: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood; Palgrave Studies in the Histor; Palgrave Studies in the Histor; Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; Geschichte, Reform, Relief, B, Afrikanische Geschichte, TIME, History, Crisis, Social History, Sonstige nonkonforme und evangelikale Kirchen, Future, Poverty, Historiography, auseinandersetzen, African History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Africa—History, Evangelicalism, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches