Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2014)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Details
    ISBN: 9781479856558
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Children and Youth in America 1
    DDC: 305.230973
    Abstract: In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children's history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479856558.001.0001
    URL: https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479856558.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479856558
    URL: Cover
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    HeBIS
    BVB
  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Age in America : the colonial era to the present (2015)
    New York : New York University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9781479806836 , 1479806838 , 9781479840595 , 1479840599
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Age in America
    DDC: 305.260973
    Keywords: Age Social aspects ; History ; United States ; Age Political aspects ; History ; United States ; Age groups History ; United States ; Social classes History ; United States ; Identity (Psychology) History ; United States ; Coming of age Social aspects ; History ; United States ; Aging Social aspects ; History ; United States ; Citizenship History ; United States ; Political culture History ; United States ; Age Social aspects ; History ; Age Political aspects ; History ; Age groups History ; Social classes History ; Identity (Psychology) History ; Coming of age Social aspects ; History ; Aging Social aspects ; History ; Citizenship History ; Political culture History ; Age groups ; Age ; Political aspects ; Aging ; Social aspects ; Citizenship ; Identity (Psychology) ; Political culture ; Social classes ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives--precise moments when our rights and opportunities change--when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures--from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas--Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship"--Publisher's website
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479840595
    URL: Cover
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Online Resource
    BSZ
    HeBIS
    BVB
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...