War and childhood in the era of the two World Wars
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War and childhood in the era of the two World Wars
(Publications of the German Historical Institute)
German Historical Institute , Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Esbjoern 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 Soland
- 14. Attacking children with nuclear weapons: the centrality of children in American understandings of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Robert Jacobs.
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