Child Life in Colonial Days - Couverture souple

Earle, Alice Morse

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 093639952X ISBN 13 : 9780936399522

Editeur : Countryman Press Inc., 1993

Synopsis

At the end of the 19th century, after Americans had endured thirty years of tremendous change due to rapid industrial growth, social upheavals, and the excesses of the Gilded Age, they began to look back with increasing fondness to their own past. The Colonial Revival in architecture was one fruit of this nostalgia; another was the insightful chronicles of social history in earlier days written by Alice Morse Earle. Following the success of her book "Home Life in Colonial Days," Alice Morse Earle wrote a detailed and fascinating account of American children and their lives from the very earliest settlers to the first decades of the new republic. Covering everything from dress to toys, schools to play, discipline and religion, she described in highly readable prose a child's life in the days before the railroad and telegraph. Her book has endured for a century, enthralling readers and inspiring scholars to new research into the field.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Foreword When we regard the large share which child study has in the interest of the reader and thinker of to-day, it is indeed curious to see how little is told of child life in history. The ancients made no record of the life of young children; classic Rome furnishes no data for child study; the Greeks left no child forms in art The student of original sources of history learns little about children in his searches; few in number and comparatively meagre in quality are the literary re mains that even refer to them. We know little of the childhood days of our forbear s, and have scant opportunity to make comparisons or note progress. The child of colonial days was emphatically to be seen, not to be heard nor was he even to be much in evidence to the eye. He was of as little importance in domestic, social, or ethical relations as his childish successor is of great importance to-day; it was deemed neither courteous, decorous, nor wise to make him appear of value or note in his own eyes or in the eyes of his seniors. Hence there was none of that exhaustive study of the motives, thoughts, and acts of a child which is now rife.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Countryman Press Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 093639952X
• ISBN 13: 9780936399522
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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