TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marten,James
TI  - Children and Youth in a New Nation
T2  - Children and Youth in America
SN  - 9780814757420
AV  - HQ792.U5 C424 2009 
U1  - 305.23097309033 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Children
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Youth
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican experiment.In Children and Youth in a New Nation, historians unearth the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution. Beginning with the revolution itself, the contributors explore a broad range of topics, from the ways in which American children and youth participated in and learned from the revolt and its aftermaths, to developing notions of "ideal" childhoods as they were imagined by new religious denominations and competing ethnic groups, to the struggle by educators over how the society that came out of the Revolution could best be served by its educational systems. The volume concludes by foreshadowing future "child-saving" efforts by reformers committed to constructing adequate systems of public health and child welfare institutions.Rooted in the historical literature and primary sources, Children and Youth in a New Nation is a key resource in our understanding of origins of modern ideas about children and youth and the conflation of national purpose and ideas related to child development
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759851
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759851/original
ER  -