0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Buy Now

Learning from the Left - Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,938
Discovery Miles 29 380
Learning from the Left - Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Hardcover, New):...

Learning from the Left - Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Hardcover, New)

Julia L. Mickenberg

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,938 Discovery Miles 29 380 | Repayment Terms: R275 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of their work. Spanning from the 1920s, when both children's book publishing and American Communism were becoming significant on the American scene, to the late 1960s, when youth who had been raised on many of the books in this study unequivocally rejected the values of the Cold War, Learning from the Left shows how "radical" values and ideas that have now become mainstream (including cooperation, interracial friendship, critical thinking, the dignity of labor, feminism, and the history of marginalized people), were communicated to children in repressive times. A range of popular and critically acclaimed children's books, many by former teachers and others who had been blacklisted because of their political beliefs, made commonplace the ideas that McCarthyism tended to call "subversive." These books, about history, science, and contemporary social conditions-as well as imaginative works, science fiction, and popular girls' mystery series-were readily available to children: most could be found in public and school libraries, and some could even be purchased in classrooms through book clubs that catered to educational audiences. Drawing upon extensive interviews, archival research, and hundreds of children's books published from the 1920s through the 1970s, Learning from the Left offers a history of the children's book in light of the history of the history of the Left, and a new perspective on the links betweenthe Old Left of the 1930s and the New Left of the 1960s.
Winner of the Grace Abbott Book Prize of the Society for the History of Children and Youth

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2005
First published: November 2005
Authors: Julia L. Mickenberg (Associate Professor of American Studies)
Dimensions: 241 x 161 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515280-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-515280-8
Barcode: 9780195152807

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Time For Socialism - Dispatches From A…
Thomas Piketty Hardcover R575 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070
Socialism Vanquished, Socialism…
Nina Bandelj, Dorothy J. Solinger Hardcover R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010
The Left Divided - The Development and…
Sara Watson Hardcover R3,649 Discovery Miles 36 490
The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin
A Kemp-Welch Hardcover R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810
The Chapo Guide to Revolution - A…
Chapo Trap House, Felix Biederman, … Paperback  (1)
R423 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960
Socialist History, Vol 23 - Migrants and…
Kevin Morgan Paperback R257 Discovery Miles 2 570
The Rise of New Labour - Party Policies…
Anthony F. Heath, Roger M. Jowell, … Hardcover R5,115 Discovery Miles 51 150
Communism and Democracy - History…
Mike Makin-Waite Paperback R592 Discovery Miles 5 920
Art, Wealth and Riches
William Morris Paperback R143 Discovery Miles 1 430
Capitalism and Power 2023 - SOCIALIST…
Greg Albo, Nicole Aschoff, … Hardcover R1,740 Discovery Miles 17 400
The Labour Party and Electoral Reform
Jasper Miles Hardcover R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110
New Polarizations and Old…
Greg Albo, Leo Panitch, … Paperback R591 Discovery Miles 5 910

See more

Partners