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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Children in colonial America. New York : New York University Press, c2007 (OCoLC)608152016 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Alan Marten |
| ISBN: | 0814757154 9780814757154 0814757162 9780814757161 |
| OCLC Number: | 70219755 |
| Description: | xiii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. 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. |
| Series Title: | Children and youth in America. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James Marten ; with a foreword by Philip J. Greven. |
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Abstract:
Examines the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This work contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.
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"Providing fresh historical perspectives on key features of children's lives, this book offers compelling, new materials on childhood in colonial America, and on groups - including Native Americans and Hispanics - too often left out of conventional coverage." - Peter Stearns, George Mason University" Read more...
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