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  • Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

    by James Marten, Paula S Fass ...
    In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children in Colonial America

    by James Marten, Philip J Greven ...
    Series Book 3 - Children and Youth in America
    A historical exploration of the childhood experiences of those who grew up and came of age in America's colonized communities.The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Childhood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has varied by gender, class, religion, ethnicity, place, and economic need. As author James Marten explores in this Very Short Introduction, so too have the realities of childhood, each life shaped by ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Children's Civil War

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Children — white and black, northern and southern — endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture

    Edited by James Marten ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities. Taking a global approach and beginning in early modern Europe, the essays in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture provide broadly ... Read more

    $141.29 USD

  • The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

    The Biography of a Regiment

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Reimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade, the Sixth was organized in July 1861 and mustered out in the summer of 1865, playing major roles at Second Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and in the Overland ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Lessons of War

    The Civil War in Children's Magazines

    Edited by James Marten ...
    While information regarding children and their outlook on the war is not abun-dant, James Marten, through extensive research, has uncovered essays, editorials, articles, poems, games, short stories and letters that tell the story of the Civil War through the eyes of children. Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines is a collection of such items, gathered from popular children's ... Read more

    $37.29 USD

  • The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories

    The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories is an unforgettable collection of stories for and about children during the Civil War, with contributions from American luminaries such as Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Walt Whitman. The book reveals that the war affected the lives of children differently than their mothers and fathers: some looked at it as a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars

    Edited by Mischa Honeck, James Marten ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Children and Youth during the Civil War Era

    Edited by James Marten ...
    The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by and giving voice and context to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Children and War

    A Historical Anthology

    Edited by James Marten ...
    "This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."-Canadian Journal of HistoryThe American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Texas Divided

    Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874

    by James Marten ...
    The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from within—from fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD