{"product_id":"designing-modern-childhoods-history-space-and-the-material-culture-of-children-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813541969","title":"Designing Modern Childhoods History Space and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable; and the cultural landscapes of children''s private lives were changed, with modifications in architecture and the objects of daily life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDesigning Modern Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald''s Happy Meal. Special attention is given to how children use and interpret the spaces, buildings, and objects that are part of their lives, becoming themselves creators and carriers of culture. The authors ex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This imaginative and original collection will play an important role in enhancing a growing interest in the history and sociology of childhood.\" -- Peter Stearns * Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University *\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in this interesting and informative volume look at modern childhood's space and material culture from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Paula S. Fass \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Good to Think With: History, Space, and Modern Childhood\u003cbr\u003eMARTA GUTMAN AND NING DE CONINCK-SMITH \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: Child Saving and the Design of Modern Childhoods\u003cbr\u003e1 Connecting with the Landscape: Campfires and Youth Culture at American Summer Camps, 1890–1950 \u003cbr\u003eABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK\u003cbr\u003e2 A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform \u003cbr\u003eDAVID C. SLOANE\u003cbr\u003e3 Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home \u003cbr\u003eANNMARIE ADAMS AND PETER GOSSAGE\u003cbr\u003e4 The “Myers Park Experiment” in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913–1916 \u003cbr\u003eANÉNE CUSINS-LEWER AND JULIA GATLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: The Choreography of Education and Play\u003cbr\u003e5 A Breath of Fresh Air: Open-Air Schools in Europe \u003cbr\u003eANNE-MARIE CH TELET\u003cbr\u003e6 Molding the Republican Generation: The Landscapes of Learning in Early Republican Turkey \u003cbr\u003eZEYNEP KEZER\u003cbr\u003e7 Nomadic Schools in Senegal: Manifestations of Integration or Ritual Performance? \u003cbr\u003eKRISTINE JUUL\u003cbr\u003e8 Adventure Playgrounds and Postwar Reconstruction \u003cbr\u003eROY KOZLOVSKY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE: Space, Power, and Inequality in\u003cbr\u003eModern Childhoods\u003cbr\u003e9 The View from the Back Step: White Children Learn about Race in Johannesburg’s Suburban Homes \u003cbr\u003eREBECCA GINSBURG\u003cbr\u003e10 Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South \u003cbr\u003eMARY S. HOFFSCHWELLE\u003cbr\u003e11 The Geographies and Identities of Street Girls in Indonesia \u003cbr\u003eHARRIOT BEAZLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR: Consumption, Commodification, and the Media: Material Culture and Contemporary Childhoods\u003cbr\u003e12 Coming of Age in Suburbia: Gifting the Consumer Child \u003cbr\u003eALISON J. CLARKE\u003cbr\u003e13 Inscribing Nordic Childhoodsat McDonald’s \u003cbr\u003eHELENE BREMBECK\u003cbr\u003e14 “Board with the World”: Youthful Approaches to Landscapes and Mediascapes \u003cbr\u003eOLAV CHRISTENSEN\u003cbr\u003e15 Migrating Media: Anime Media Mixes and the Childhood Imagination \u003cbr\u003eMIZUKO ITO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Islanding of Children: Reshaping the Mythical Landscapes of Childhood \u003cbr\u003eJOHN R. GILLIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405778493783,"sku":"9780813541969","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813541969.jpg?v=1730493582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/designing-modern-childhoods-history-space-and-the-material-culture-of-children-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813541969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}