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The play world : toys, texts, and the transatlantic German childhood

Author: Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] ©2020
Series: Max Kade German-American Research Institute series.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Examines German theories and practices of play, parenting, and pedagogy from 1631 to 1912. Explores the role of the domestic sphere and home economies in establishing transatlantic networks that influenced the emergence of gender, class, race, and religious identities for Germans beyond Europe"--
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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patricia Anne Simpson
ISBN: 9780271086996 0271086998
OCLC Number: 1141138321
Description: xix, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Protestant play ethic --
Professional parenting : enlightened play --
Revolutions in play --
Colonizing childhoods : the African imaginary --
Ethnographic play and the American imaginary --
The home and the nation --
Empire of toys.
Series Title: Max Kade German-American Research Institute series.
Responsibility: Patricia Anne Simpson.

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