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Book The Child

Download or read book The Child written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cold War Kids

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2014-06-06
  • ISBN : 070061964X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Cold War Kids written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we take it for granted that political leaders and presidential administrations will address issues related to children and teenagers. But in the not-so-distant past, politicians had little to say, and federal programs less to do with children—except those of very specific populations. This book shows how the Cold War changed all that. Against the backdrop of the postwar baby boom, and the rise of a distinct teen culture, Cold War Kids unfolds the little-known story of how politics and federal policy expanded their influence in shaping children’s lives and experiences—making way for the youth-attuned political culture that we’ve come to expect. In the first part of the twentieth century, narrow and incremental policies focused on children were the norm. And then, in the postwar years, monumental events such as the introduction of the Salk vaccine or the Soviet launch of Sputnik delivered jolts to the body politic, producing a federal response that included all children. Cold War Kids charts the changes that followed, making the mid-twentieth century a turning point in federal action directly affecting children and teenagers. With the 1950 and 1960 White House Conferences on Children and Youth as a framework, Marilyn Irvin Holt examines childhood policy and children’s experience in relation to population shifts, suburbia, divorce and family stability, working mothers, and the influence of television. Here we see how the government, driven by a Cold War mentality, was becoming ever more involved in aspects of health, education, and welfare even as the baby boom shaped American thought, promoting societal acceptance of the argument that all children, not just the poorest and neediest, merited their government’s attention. This period, largely viewed as a time of “stagnation” in studies of children and childhood after World War II, emerges in Holt’s cogent account as a distinct period in the history of children in America.

Book Sex and Conquest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard C. Trexler
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780801484827
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Sex and Conquest written by Richard C. Trexler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical account of the berdache--biological men who performed the offices and work of women, including sexual service--in Europe and America at the time of the Conquest. Trexler examines the sexual culture of both early modern Iberia and the native American world of that era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Let s Take The Kids

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  • Author : Mary Barile
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780312155698
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Let s Take The Kids written by Mary Barile and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by NEW YORK magazine, and now fully updated and revised, this all-season guide lists hundreds of family activities for an afternoon, a weekend, or a whole week in 16 Hudson Valley counties, organized by region with detailed entries, including special events for kids ages 2 to 12. Maps.

Book The Limits of Voluntarism

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  • Author : Andrew J. F. Morris
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 052188957X
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Limits of Voluntarism written by Andrew J. F. Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the new relationship between charity and welfare in the era following the New Deal.

Book Handbook of Research on Children s and Young Adult Literature

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Children s and Young Adult Literature written by Shelby Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science.

Book Peoples of the River Valleys

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  • Author : Amy C. Schutt
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0812203798
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Peoples of the River Valleys written by Amy C. Schutt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century Susquehanna and Ohio River valleys. In the process, they did not abandon kin and community orientations, but they increasingly defined a role for themselves as Delaware Indians in early American society. Peoples of the River Valleys offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the Delaware, or Lenape, Indians in the context of events in the mid-Atlantic region and the Ohio Valley. It focuses on a broad and significant period: 1609-1783, including the years of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization and the American Revolution. An epilogue takes the Delawares' story into the mid-nineteenth century. Amy C. Schutt examines important themes in Native American history—mediation and alliance formation—and shows their crucial role in the development of the Delawares as a people. She goes beyond familiar questions about Indian-European relations and examines how Indian-Indian associations were a major factor in the history of the Delawares. Drawing extensively upon primary sources, including treaty minutes, deeds, and Moravian mission records, Schutt reveals that Delawares approached alliances as a tool for survival at a time when Euro-Americans were encroaching on Native lands. As relations with colonists were frequently troubled, Delawares often turned instead to form alliances with other Delawares and non-Delaware Indians with whom they shared territories and resources. In vivid detail, Peoples of the River Valleys shows the link between the Delawares' approaches to land and the relationships they constructed on the land.

Book The Department of State Bulletin

Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Book War Monuments  Museums and Library Collections of 20th Century Conflicts

Download or read book War Monuments Museums and Library Collections of 20th Century Conflicts written by Steve Rajtar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique state-by-state directory covers monuments, memorials, museums, markers, statues and library collections that relate to the veterans, weapons, vehicles, airplanes, victims or any other aspect of war in which the United States participated. While a site may have been created before 1900 (such as a fort), there must be some operational or historical tie to a twentieth century conflict to be included here. General collections, such as museums of aviation, are included if they house materials related to a twentieth century conflict. The coverage is so thorough that statues honoring veterans of the Civil War appear if veterans of later wars are on their rosters of honorees. Another example of the comprehensiveness of this compilation is in the inclusion of memorials to victims of war such as the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. For each site, the following information is given: street address, phone number, website and email address (if applicable), days and hours of operation, admission fees, other necessary information, and a brief description of the site.

Book Raising Consumers

Download or read book Raising Consumers written by Lisa Jacobson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important--and controversial--dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant during the postwar television age. But the child consumer was already an important phenomenon in the early twentieth century. The family, traditionally the primary institution of child socialization, began to face an array of new competitors who sought to put their own imprint on children's acculturation to consumer capitalism. Advertisers, children's magazine publishers, public schools, child experts, and children's peer groups alternately collaborated with, and competed against, the family in their quest to define children's identities. At stake in these conflicts and collaborations was no less than the direction of American consumer society--would children's consumer training rein in hedonistic excesses or contribute to the spread of hollow, commercial values? Not simply a new player in the economy, the child consumer became a lightning rod for broader concerns about the sanctity of the family and the authority of the market in modern capitalist culture. Lisa Jacobson reveals how changing conceptions of masculinity and femininity shaped the ways Americans understood the virtues and vices of boy and girl consumers--and why boys in particular emerged as the heroes of the new consumer age. She also analyzes how children's own behavior, peer culture, and emotional investment in goods influenced the dynamics of the new consumer culture. Raising Consumers is a provocative examination of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produced and ultimately legitimized a distinctive children's consumer culture in the early twentieth century.

Book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley   Catskill Mountains  Includes Saratoga Springs   Albany  Eighth Edition

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley Catskill Mountains Includes Saratoga Springs Albany Eighth Edition written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling and most complete guide to the gorgeous Hudson Valley is back in a new, totally revised edition. Rich with historical and cultural attractions and natural beauty, the Hudson Valley has become a choice getaway. Local author Joanne Michaels guides you through its treasure trove of restaurants, cozy inns, galleries, antiques shops, and wineries, and to its many outdoor activities. Completely revised; from the most respected travel writer in the region.

Book Child Sized History

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  • Author : Sara L. Schwebel
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 0826517943
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Child Sized History written by Sara L. Schwebel and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classroom canon of young adult novels in historical context

Book Off the Beaten Path

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Readers Digest
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0762104244
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Off the Beaten Path written by and published by Readers Digest. This book was released on 2003 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated, this handbook spotlights over 1,000 of America's most overlooked must-see destinations in a state-by-state, A-Z format. 300 color photos.

Book The City of First

Download or read book The City of First written by George Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley   Catskill Mountains  Includes Saratoga Springs   Albany  Seventh Edition   Explorer s Complete

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Hudson Valley Catskill Mountains Includes Saratoga Springs Albany Seventh Edition Explorer s Complete written by Joanne Michaels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many guides claim to be 'insider' takes on travel, but few deliver truly out-of-the-ordinary info. This one does . . . many listings will surprise even natives."—New York Daily News Rich with historical and cultural attractions, the Hudson Valley and Catskills area will be celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2009. The region will commemorate Henry Hudson’s sail up the river, Robert Fulton’s first successful commercial steamship operation, and many more nationally significant events. The region is also a treasure trove for travelers seeking outdoor recreation, five-star dining, cozy bed & breakfasts or comfy inns, as well as galleries, antiques shops, wineries, farm stands, and places to hike, kayak, and canoe. In this completely revised seventh edition, author Joanne Michaels, the most respected travel writer in the region, includes hundreds of places to dine and stay, along with a wealth of information about things to see and do—all within driving distance of New York City, Boston, and beyond. With detailed maps and hundreds of honest reviews about accommodations, eateries, and activities that will appeal to both affluent travelers and those seeking special value, Michaels’s advice will aid in planning an unforgettable trip.

Book From the Holy Experiment to the Paxton Boys

Download or read book From the Holy Experiment to the Paxton Boys written by Krista Camenzind and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery and Freedom in Delaware  1639 1865

Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in Delaware 1639 1865 written by William Henry Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It analyzes the 'peculiar institution' in the First State.