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Book SynopsisThe American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
Trade ReviewThis anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep. * Canadian Journal of History *
A significant, timely, and provocative collection, Children and War raises disturbing questions about the ways in which wars and equivalent actions have impacted the lives of children. It also explores the ways in which planners and policy makers used children to further their own aims and purposes. We all know that war is unhealthy for children; Children and War shows us how and why this is the case. -- Joseph M. Hawes,author of Children between the Wars
Throughout history, children, who are the least responsible for war, have suffered the most from it. And the perceptive and wide-ranging essays in this indispensable anthology enable us to understand why. -- William M. Tuttle Jr.,author of Daddy's Gone to War
Table of Contents1 Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution 2 "After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor" 3 Flowers of Evil 4 Imagining Anzac 5 Rescue and Trauma 6 Mama, Are We Going to Die? America's Children Confront the Cuban Missile Crisis 7 Bereavement in a War Zone 8 Representations of War and Martial Heroes in English Elementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885-1914 9 The Child in the Flying Machine 10 World Friendship 11 Ghosts and the Machine 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January-August 1945 13 The Antifascist Narrative 14 Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times of War and the History of Children's Rights, 1919-1959 15 "These Unfortunate Children": Sons and Daughters of the Regiment in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France 16 Children and the New Zealand War 17 Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians 18 "Baptized in Blood" 19 "Too Young for a Uniform" 20 Against Their Will 21 Innocent Victims and Heroic Defenders
