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The History of Childhood
A Very Short Introduction
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2018
135 kr
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While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Through 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 …
History of Childhood
A Very Short Introduction
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2018
95 kr
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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 …
History of Childhood
A Very Short Introduction
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2018
95 kr
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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 …
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2023
1895 kr
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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 …
Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2023
1548 kr
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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 …
Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2023
1548 kr
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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 …
Children's Civil War
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2000
401 kr
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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, …
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2011
410 kr
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After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered — or struggled to reenter — the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War , James Marten explores how the nineteenth century’s “Greatest Generation” attempted to blend back into society and how their …
Children's Civil War
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2000
321 kr
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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, …
Texas Divided
Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2014
551 kr
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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 …
Texas Divided
Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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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 …
Presidential Powers
Av Harold J Krent, James Marten
Inbunden, 2005
1124 kr
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Framed in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this power is kept in check by other branches of government, Harold J. Krent presents three overlapping …
Children and War
A Historical Anthology
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2002
1258 kr
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"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 …
Children and War
A Historical Anthology
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2002
439 kr
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"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 …
Children in Colonial America
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2006
996 kr
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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 indigenous families whom they …
Children in Colonial America
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2006
439 kr
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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 indigenous families whom they …
Children and Youth in a New Nation
Inbunden, 2009
996 kr
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In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican …
Children and Youth in a New Nation
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2009
439 kr
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In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant to be an American, they also wondered what it meant to be an American child. A defensive, even fearful, approach to childhood gave way to a more optimistic campaign to integrate young Americans into the Republican …
Children and Youth During the Civil War Era
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2012
996 kr
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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 …
Children and Youth During the Civil War Era
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2012
439 kr
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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 …
America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2014
1253 kr
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James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away …
America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2014
470 kr
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James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away …
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
Av Caroline E. Janney, James Marten
Häftad, 2021
665 kr
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for …
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America
Av Caroline E. Janney, James Marten
Inbunden, 2021
2134 kr
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for …
Civil War America
Voices from the Home Front
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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The author of an acclaimed account of the lives of children in the Civil War, Marten here provides a more comprehensive introduction to the civilian history of the Civil War. Concise, vividly written chapters describe the home front through the lives of individuals and the histories of events and …
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
Av Mischa Honeck, James Marten
Inbunden, 2019
1641 kr
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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 …
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2011
1070 kr
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After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War , James Marten explores how the nineteenth century''s "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their …
Sing not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Av James Marten
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's ""Greatest Generation"" attempted to blend back into society and how their …
Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
Av James Marten
Inbunden, 2025
403 kr
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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 …
Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
Av James Marten
E-bok, 2025
2181 kr
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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 …
