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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Hardcover)
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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Hardcover)
Series: Children and Youth in America
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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 youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the
disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group.
Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives
to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to
children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by
renowned scholar of children's history James Marten, the collection
of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational
reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for
children, among others. Including important primary documents
produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume
foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their
own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and
control them.
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