World of Children

Simone Lässig, since 2006 Professor for Modern History at Braunschweig University, has been the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, since 2015. Prior to that, she was the director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany.

“This collection of essays provides rich, varied, and well-contextualized examples of the disparate forms of media through which knowledge about the world reached German children and adolescents in the nineteenth century. I found it stimulating, original, and engaging.” • Katharine Kennedy, Agnes Scott College“The World of Children is a superb book, much needed by German historiography, and contains fascinating essays with original scholarship and research. It is a pleasure to read and has much to teach us about children’s culture in the long nineteenth century.” • Carolyn Kay, Trent University

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Children, the Nation, and the WorldSimone Lässig and Andreas WeißPART I: OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGEChapter 1. New Words and the New World: Language and the Transnational Legacy of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der JüngereKirsten BelgumChapter 2. Images of Land and Sea: Experiencing the World as Adventure through Theodor Dielitz’s Travel Anthologies for Young Readers, 1841–1862Matthew O. AndersonChapter 3. World Knowledge in Textbooks for French Language Teaching in the Nineteenth Century in GermanyRegina SchleicherChapter 4. The World at War in German Textbooks: Knowledge of the World Conveyed in Representations of WarAndreas WeißChapter 5. When Nippon Became Prussian: The German Image of Japan in Nineteenth-Century TextbooksMaik FiedlerPART II: LITERARY KNOWLEDGEChapter 6. Thrilling Hearts and Winning Minds: The Representation of Monarchy, Navy, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Adventure FictionMiriam Magdalena SchneiderChapter 7. Knowing Others as Selves: German Children and American IndiansH. Glenn PennyChapter 8. “Don’t you take pity on your little brothers and sisters in China?” Missionary Literature for Children and the Distribution of Relational Knowledge in Imperial GermanyKatharina StornigPART III: KNOWLEDGE IN ENTERTAINMENTChapter 9. Around the World in a Jiffy: Humorous Treatments of Around-the-World Travel in German Children’s Books and GamesEmer O’SullivanChapter 10. The Rise of the Trading Card: Collecting the World before World War IJudith BlumeChapter 11. A World Made for Exploration: Germans and Their Toys, 1890–1914David HamlinConclusion: Kaleidoscope and Lens: Re-envisioning the Past through the History of KnowledgeSimone LässigIndex