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Examines the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This work contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.

Unearths the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution

Places the history of children and youth in the context of the Civil War

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. This book includes essays, which 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.

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.

Examines various aspects of childhood in American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This title features essays that observe a diverse cross-section of children - from indigenous peoples of the east coast and Mexico to Dutch-born children of the Plymouth colony and African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean.

Unearths the experiences of and attitudes about children and youth during the decades following the American Revolution

Places the history of children and youth in the context of the Civil War