War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Honeck, Mischa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven by geopolitical rivalries and expansionist policies. Taking a global perspective, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of experiences and places. In addition to showing how the engagement of children and youth with war differed according to geography, technology, class, age, race, gender, and the nature of the state, they reveal how children acquired agency during the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108625760
• Artikelnr.: 57077340

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: more than victims: framing the history of modern childhood
and war Mischa Honeck and James Marten; Part I. Inspiring and Mobilizing:
1. Patriotic fun: toys and mobilization in China from the Republican to the
Communist era Valentina Boretti; 2. Forging a patriotic youth: penny
dreadfuls and military censorship in WWI Germany Kara Ritzheimer; 3.
Recruiting Japanese boys for the pioneer youth corps of Mongolia and
Manchuria L. Halliday Piel; 4. Defining the ideal Soviet childhood:
reportage about child evacuees from Spain as didactic literature Karl
Qualls; 5. Learning more than letters: alphabet books in the Soviet Union
and the United States during World War II Julie K. deGraffenried; 6. Boys
and girls in the service of total war: defense service training in Swedish
schools during World War II Esbjörn Larsson; 7. Good soldiers all?
Democracy and discrimination in the Boy Scouts of America, 1941-5 Mischa
Honeck; Part II. Adapting and Surviving: 8. Combatant children: ideologies
and experiences of childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902-18
Kate James; 9. Drawing the Great War: children's personal representations
of war and violence in France, Germany, and Russia Manon Pignot; 10.
Bellicists, feminists, and deserters: youth, war, and the German youth
movement, 1914-18 Antje Harms; 11. Boys without a country: Ottoman orphans
in Germany during the First World War Nazan Maksudyan; 12. In their own
words: children in the world of the Holocaust Patricia Heberer Rice; 13.
The dark side of the 'good war': children and medical experimentation in
the United States during World War II Birgitte Søland; 14. Attacking
children with nuclear weapons: the centrality of children in American
understandings of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Robert Jacobs.