View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.
"In this remarkable volume, Paula S. Fass, a pioneer and
pace-setter in the burgeoning field of children's history,
demonstrates that a knowledge of history is essential to
understanding contemporary controversies over child protection, the
commercialization of childhood, multiculturalism in public schools,
and the impact of globalization."
--Steven Mintz, author of "Huck's Raft: A History of American
Childhood"
aThought-provokinga--"Choice"
Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the
history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New
World to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in
the United States and on the world stage. Globalization,
privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the
triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she argues, are
revolutionizing the lives of children today.
Fass begins by considering the role of the school as a
fundamental component of social formation, particularly in a nation
of immigrants like the United States. She goes on to examine
children as both creators of culture and objects of cultural
concern in America, evident in the strange contemporary fear of and
fascination with child abduction, child murder, and parental
kidnapping. Finally, Fass moves beyond the limits of American
society and brings historical issues into the present and toward
the future, exploring how American historical experience can serve
as a guide to contemporary globalization as well as how
globalization is altering the experience of American children and
redefining childhood.
Clear and scholarly, serious but witty, Children of a New World
provides afoundation for future historical investigations while
adding to our current understanding of the nature of modern
childhood, the role of education for national identity, the crisis
of family life, and the influence of American concepts of childhood
on the world's definitions of children's rights. As a new
generation comes of age in a global world, it is a vital
contribution to the study of childhood and globalization.
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