States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945
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- Synopsis
- How "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people.A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left.
- Copyright:
- 1850
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262358613
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780262539012
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/14/20
- Copyrighted By:
- The MIT Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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