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OverviewIn the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children’s history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Marten , Paula S. FassPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9781479894147ISBN 10: 1479894141 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 26 September 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Part I. Shaping the Future: Institutions and the Law 17 1 Playing Progressively? Race, Reform, and Playful Pedagogies 19 in the Origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park, 1857-1904 Deborah Valentine 2 Model Schools and Field Days: Colorado Fuel and Iron's 42 Construction of Education and Recreation for Children, 1901-1918 Fawn-Amber Montoya 3 Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and the 59 Progressive Crusade for Child Labor Regulation, 1899-1920 Gwendoline Alphonso 4 ""I Was So Glad to Be in School Here"": Religious Organizations 81 and the School on Ellis Island in the Early 1900s Claire B. Gallagher 5 The Trajectory of Benevolence: Progressivism in the 102 Little Colonel Books Sarah E. Clere Part II. Managing Change: Children, Youth, 121 and Families 6 Willful Disobedience: Young People and School Authority 125 in the Nineteenth-Century United States James D. Schmidt 7 The Contested Meanings of Child Marriage in the 145 Turn-of-the-Century United States Nicholas L. Syrett 8 Sex, Abortion, and Prostitution in the Lives of Gilded Age 166 Chicago Girls Mary Linehan 9 Ohio Departures: George as Progressive Youth in Sherwood 187 Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio John James and Tom Ue 10 Fit Body, Fit Mind"ReviewsThe two-part book ('Shaping the Future' and 'Managing Change') has some excellent articles, and accompanying documents include a memoir of a Native American boarding school student, high school newspaper articles, and juvenile court documents. -Choice By presenting this scholarship from the burgeoning subfield of childhood and youth studies in such an engaging manner, Marten has made an original and useful contribution to the literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. -The Journal of American History The essays that comprise this outstanding collection make an important contribution to scholarly understandings of the Progressive era. They feature an abundance of historical actors engaged in a variety of activities that together paint a picture of the period's complex, inconsistent, and contradictory conflicts over the changing notions of childhood and youth. -Miriam Forman-Brunell,author of Babysitter: An American History The essays that comprise this outstanding collection make an important contribution to scholarly understandings of the Progressive era. They feature an abundance of historical actors engaged in a variety of activities that together paint a picture of the period's complex, inconsistent, and contradictory conflicts over the changing notions of childhood and youth. -Miriam Forman-Brunell,author of Babysitter: An American History By presenting this scholarship from the burgeoning subfield of childhood and youth studies in such an engaging manner, Marten has made an original and useful contribution to the literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. -The Journal of American History The two-part book ('Shaping the Future' and 'Managing Change') has some excellent articles, and accompanying documents include a memoir of a Native American boarding school student, high school newspaper articles, and juvenile court documents. -Choice The two-part book ('Shaping the Future' and 'Managing Change') has some excellent articles, and accompanying documents include a memoir of a Native American boarding school student, high school newspaper articles, and juvenile court documents. - Choice Author InformationJames Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including The Children’s Civil War and four NYU Press books: Children and War: A Historical Anthology; Children in Colonial America; Children and Youth in a New Nation; and Children and Youth during the Civil War Era. Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor History at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education, and The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society and (with Mary Ann Mason) Childhood in America (available from NYU Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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