David Nasaw

Children Of The City (eBook, ePUB)

At Work and at Play

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished-and until now unexamined-primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307816627
• Artikelnr.: 39249807

Autorenporträt

David Nasaw is an associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and author of Schooled to Order. He lives in New York City with his wife, Dinitia Smith, and their twin sons, Daniel and Peter.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1.  The City They Called Home
2.  At Play in the City
3.  Child Labor and Laborers
4.  The Littlest Hustlers
5.  The Newsies
6.  Junkers, Scavengers, and Petty Theives
7.  The “Litter Mothers”
8.  All That Money Could Buy
9.  The Battle for Spending Money
10. The Children and the Child-Savers
11. Working Together
12. Unions and Strikes
13. End of an Era
Epilogue
Appendix:  A Note on Sources: The Newsboy Studies
Abbreviations
Notes
Index