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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| 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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"Simpson's book is a welcome addition to discussions of the importance of the domestic sphere, and its artifacts and practices, for questions of cultural nationalism and transnational interplays. It shows the impact of toys and play on narratives of migration, the articulation of middle-class subjectivity, and the role of model childhoods in the self-identity of modern European family structures-and how they influenced European American family structures in their acquisition of racial, ethnic, and national regimes."-Karin A. Wurst, author of Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780-1830 "Within the burgeoning scholarship on play and the material culture of childhood, Simpson's The Play World stands out through its attention to a breathtaking range of texts and artifacts that lie at the margins of the canon; its brilliantly eclectic methodology (combining literary, material, and intellectual history with postcolonial studies, critical race theory, gender studies, disability studies, and much more); and its ability to illuminate complex cultural and commercial currents that connect German-speaking Europe with Africa, Great Britain, and the Americas from the seventeenth century to WWI. It's a remarkable book that will resonate within and beyond the field of childhood studies."-Elliott Schreiber, co-editor of Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 Read more...

