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Little Voices: The Importance and Limitations of Children’s Histories
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Robin P. Chapdelaine
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1296–1299, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa377
Published: 21 October 2020
..., Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), 76. 4 Rachel Neiwert, “Homeschool/School-Home: Defining Your Place in the British World, 1900–1924,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 13, no. 1 (2020): 63–79, here 73. 5 Kelly Duke Bryant, “‘Dear Monsieur...
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Getting Personal with Our Sources: A Response
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Sarah Maza
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1317–1322, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa479
Published: 21 October 2020
... histories of childhood in such places as India or Africa, many of which are cited in my essay and the responses. The question is whether, and if so, exactly how, any such item advances a compelling methodological or interpretive challenge to Western explanatory categories. 10 The closest item I know...
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Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to “The Kids Aren’t All Right”
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Ishita Pande
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1300–1305, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa383
Published: 21 October 2020
...Ishita Pande Childhood children history of childhood agency modernity subjecthood When we were young the future was so bright The old neighborhood was so alive And every kid on the whole damn street Was gonna make it big and not be beat. Now the neighborhood’s cracked and torn, The kids...
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood
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Sarah Maza
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1261–1285, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa380
Published: 21 October 2020
... by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency. Childhood children history of childhood agency modernity subjecthood All children, except one, grow up. —J...
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Comment on Sarah Maza’s “The Kids Aren’t All Right”
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Nara Milanich
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1293–1295, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa381
Published: 21 October 2020
... of the Association of American Publishers. 1 Claudia Castañeda, Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds (Durham, N.C., 2002), 1. Childhood children history of childhood agency modernity subjecthood The room was crowded with university dignitaries. I jostled my way toward the guest of honor, a former...
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Children’s History Matters
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Steven Mintz
The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1286–1292, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa382
Published: 21 October 2020
... child, the author trivializes what many children’s historians are seeking to do: to integrate the history of childhood and of children. Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange...
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War Trauma and Alcoholism in the Early Writings of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë
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Emma Butcher
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 22, Issue 4, 1 December 2017, Pages 465–481, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2017.1336471
Published: 01 December 2017
... for understanding and re-evaluating the public response to post-war military masculinity. War Brontë trauma alcoholism life writing juvenilia Napoleonic Wars masculinity soldier history of childhood Between 1829 and 1839, Charlotte Brontë and her brother, Branwell, collaborated on a fantasy saga...
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‘His Whole Nature requires Development’: Education, School Life and Deafness in Wales, 1850–1914
Mike Mantin
Social History of Medicine, Volume 30, Issue 4, November 2017, Pages 727–747, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkw124
Published: 09 January 2017
... in wider Victorian and Edwardian discourses of education and childhood. deaf history, Wales, physical education, history of childhood, history of education Historians of Victorian and Edwardian deaf education have understandably focused their studies on language and the battle over signs and speech...
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Infants, Children, and Death in Medieval Muslim Society: Some Preliminary Observations
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AVNER GILADI
Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 345–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/3.3.345
Published: 01 December 1990
... of the attitudes towards them in medieval Muslim society.
KEYWORDS: Adults' reactions to children's death, causes of death, concepts of child-
hood, consolation treatises, death rates, history of childhood, infant and child mortality,
juridical writings, medieval Muslim society, poems of lamentation...
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Published: 05 October 2017
... Carolyn virgin virginity Wenham Gordon J vicarious punishment beating mutilation power power relations Scheper Hughes Nancy Dog canine and treatment associated with structural violence Schwartz Glenn M McNutt Paula M Bloch Smith Elizabeth history of childhood child sacrifice slavery sexual...
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Being Born and Being Born Again: On Having or Not Having a Child of One’s Own
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Michael Banner
Published: 23 October 2014
... scrutiny and was moderated to become the still-important point that ‘childhood has a history’—which is probably what Ariès meant in the first place. As well has having a history, childhood has an anthropology—since there not only have been but are many and diverse ways of creating and shaping a child...
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Published: 11 November 2021
... Zeitgeschichte Brandes Detlef careers FDJ Freie Deutsche Jugend Finger Jürgen German Democratic Republic GDR history of childhood history of education Honecker Erich Koll Johannes Mertens Annette NATO Ofner Harald Schoenecker Hans Stargardt Nicholas Württemberg Ausleseschule Backnang NPEA...
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The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals
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Kristine Moruzi (ed.) and others
Published online: 23 January 2025
Published in print: 30 April 2024
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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives
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Jon Lawrence (ed.) and Pat Starkey (ed.)
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 01 October 2001
...This collection of twelve essays contributes to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It challenges many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy, and covers a variety of themes including the physical and sexual...
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Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States
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Rebecca Onion
Published online: 18 May 2017
Published in print: 31 October 2016
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Hendrik Hartog
Published: 05 July 2024
... Era Cold War Chicago Los Angeles juvenile justice history of childhood American legal history It was in 1913 that Jack Robbins first became the “big brother” to “chanceless waifs.” Newspaper readers soon learned much about how he befriended boys living on city streets and how he advocated...
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Published: 28 October 2010
... decade there has appeared a considerable body of scholarship devoted to the history of childhood in antiquity. Problems pertaining to childhood in Late Antiquity, not to mention children, have, on the other hand, aroused little interest. When handled, they appear as an adjunct to legal or educational...
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The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain
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Teri Chettiar
Published online: 15 December 2022
Published in print: 03 January 2023
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Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland
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Moira J. Maguire
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 January 2010
...This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to ‘cherish’ and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. It examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, breaking new ground...
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