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Huck's raft : a history of American childhood / Steven Mintz.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.Description: xi, 445 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674015088 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U5 M57 2004
Contents:
1. Children of the Covenant -- 2. Red, White, and Black in Colonial America -- 3. Sons and Daughters of Liberty -- 4. Inventing the Middle-Class Child -- 5. Growing Up in Bondage -- 6. Childhood Battles of the Civil War -- 7. Laboring Children -- 8. Save the Child -- 9. Children under the Magnifying Glass -- 10. New to the Promised Land -- 11. Revolt of Modern Youth -- 12. Coming of Age in the Great Depression -- 13. Mobilizing Children for World War II -- 14. In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood -- 15. Youthquake -- 16. Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood -- 17. The Unfinished Century of the Child.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-436) and index.

1. Children of the Covenant -- 2. Red, White, and Black in Colonial America -- 3. Sons and Daughters of Liberty -- 4. Inventing the Middle-Class Child -- 5. Growing Up in Bondage -- 6. Childhood Battles of the Civil War -- 7. Laboring Children -- 8. Save the Child -- 9. Children under the Magnifying Glass -- 10. New to the Promised Land -- 11. Revolt of Modern Youth -- 12. Coming of Age in the Great Depression -- 13. Mobilizing Children for World War II -- 14. In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood -- 15. Youthquake -- 16. Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood -- 17. The Unfinished Century of the Child.

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