Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood
by Fran Abrams
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- ISBN 10
- 1843548968
- ISBN 13
- 9781843548966
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Atlantic Books, 2012. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, and index. 288 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. As recently as 100 years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked grueling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls still in their grasp; and boys at schools like Rugby and Harrow were brutally trained for their future at the helm of Britain's vast red empire. This book charts the transformation of childhood in the UK from early Victorian disagreements about childrearing to the Scouts' very direct involvement in World War I. Poignant first-hand accounts of poverty and deprivation as well as innocent pleasures carry the reader through a Dickensian landscape of urchins and Fauntleroys, the cosseted lives of Edwardian children to the self-sufficient charges of Baden-Powell. Fran Abrams draws distinctions along class lines and divisions such as town and country, Romantic and conservative, to achieve a historical perspective shows the progression of the idea of childhood through a century of massive social change brought about by urbanization, war, and medico-psychological advances. Songs of Innocence employs searing personal testimony and immaculate research to provide a fascinating exposition of the past and a mirror for the present.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. As recently as 100 years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked grueling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls still in their grasp; and boys at schools like Rugby and Harrow were brutally trained for their future at the helm of Britain's vast red empire. This book charts the transformation of childhood in the UK from early Victorian disagreements about childrearing to the Scouts' very direct involvement in World War I. Poignant first-hand accounts of poverty and deprivation as well as innocent pleasures carry the reader through a Dickensian landscape of urchins and Fauntleroys, the cosseted lives of Edwardian children to the self-sufficient charges of Baden-Powell. Fran Abrams draws distinctions along class lines and divisions such as town and country, Romantic and conservative, to achieve a historical perspective shows the progression of the idea of childhood through a century of massive social change brought about by urbanization, war, and medico-psychological advances. Songs of Innocence employs searing personal testimony and immaculate research to provide a fascinating exposition of the past and a mirror for the present.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood
- Author
- Fran Abrams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1843548968
- ISBN 13
- 9781843548966
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- British history, Europe, Children, Child labor, UK, Britain, Kids, Nonfiction, Fauntleroys, Edwardian era, Victorian era, Innocence,
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