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Childhood in America (Eyewitness History Series) by Reef, Catherine is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Childhood in America (Eyewitness History Series) about?

Childhood in America surveys the history of the United States from the point of view of children. It explores children's role in building the new nation as full participants in farm life in the early national period, as industrial workers in northeastern cities in the 19th century, and as pioneers and settlers of the West. Countless early American families could not have survived without the labor of their children. The book also examines the effects on children's lives of several national crises. It traces the evolution of attitudes toward children and childhood. For example, boys and girls of the early national period were expected to work, worship, and socialize with adults and were allowed little time for play. By the second half of the 19th century, as the United States became more urban and middle-class, children's role as workers diminished, and childhood was perceived as a time of innocence.

Author

Reef, Catherine

Publisher

Facts On File, Inc., 132 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001 (hardbound: ISBN-0-8160-4438-4, $75). Tel: 800-322-8755 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.factsonfile.com/

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816044382

Subjects

Gender Studies, History, Sociology