- Summary
- Children have always been involved in warfare. This text shows that they have contributed to home front war efforts and that war-time experiences have always affected the ways children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, [2002]
©2002
- Contents
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Childhood, memory, and the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams
"After the war I am going to put myself a sailor" : geography, writing, and race in the letters of free children of color in Civil War New Orleans / Molly Mitchell
Flowers of evil : mass media, child psychology, and the struggle for Russia's future during the First World War / Aaron J. Cohen
Imagining Anzac : children's memories of the killing fields of the Great War / Bruce C. Scates
Rescue and trauma : Jewish children and the kindertransports during the Holocaust / Eric J. Sterling
Mama, are we going to die? : America's children confront the Cuban missile crisis / Chris O'Brien
Bereavement in a war zone : Liberia in the 1990s / Cynthia B. Eriksson and Elizabeth A. Rupp
Representations of war and martial heroes in English elementary school reading and rituals, 1885-1914 / Stephen Heathorn
The child in the flying machine : childhood and aviation in the First World War / Guillaume de Syon
World friendship : children, parents, and peace education in America between the wars / Diana Selig
Ghosts and the machine : teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921 / Stephen E. Lewis
Japanese children and the culture of death, January-August 1945 / Owen Griffiths
The antifascist narrative : memory lessons in the schools of the Soviet occupation zone, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing
Humanitarian sympathy for children in times of war and the history of children's rights, 1919-1959 / Dominique Marshall
"These unfortunate children" : sons and daughters of the Regiment in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Thomas Cardoza
Children and the New Zealand wars : an exploration / Jeanine Marie Graham
Stolen generations and vanishing Indians : the removal of indigenous children as a weapon of war in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940 / Victoria Haskins and Margaret D. Jacobs
"Baptized in blood" : children in the time of the Sandino rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder
"Too young for a uniform" : children's war work on the Iowa farm front, 1941-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian
Against their will : the use and abuse of British children during the Second World War / Penny Elaine Starns and Martin L. Parsons
Innocent victims and heroic defenders : children and the Siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Marten, James Alan.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301) and index.
Childhood, memory, and the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams -- "After the war I am going to put myself a sailor" : geography, writing, and race in the letters of free children of color in Civil War New Orleans / Molly Mitchell -- Flowers of evil : mass media, child psychology, and the struggle for Russia's future during the First World War / Aaron J. Cohen -- Imagining Anzac : children's memories of the killing fields of the Great War / Bruce C. Scates -- Rescue and trauma : Jewish children and the kindertransports during the Holocaust / Eric J. Sterling -- Mama, are we going to die? : America's children confront the Cuban missile crisis / Chris O'Brien -- Bereavement in a war zone : Liberia in the 1990s / Cynthia B. Eriksson and Elizabeth A. Rupp -- Representations of war and martial heroes in English elementary school reading and rituals, 1885-1914 / Stephen Heathorn -- The child in the flying machine : childhood and aviation in the First World War / Guillaume de Syon -- World friendship : children, parents, and peace education in America between the wars / Diana Selig -- Ghosts and the machine : teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921 / Stephen E. Lewis -- Japanese children and the culture of death, January-August 1945 / Owen Griffiths -- The antifascist narrative : memory lessons in the schools of the Soviet occupation zone, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing -- Humanitarian sympathy for children in times of war and the history of children's rights, 1919-1959 / Dominique Marshall -- "These unfortunate children" : sons and daughters of the Regiment in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Thomas Cardoza -- Children and the New Zealand wars : an exploration / Jeanine Marie Graham -- Stolen generations and vanishing Indians : the removal of indigenous children as a weapon of war in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940 / Victoria Haskins and Margaret D. Jacobs -- "Baptized in blood" : children in the time of the Sandino rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder -- "Too young for a uniform" : children's war work on the Iowa farm front, 1941-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian -- Against their will : the use and abuse of British children during the Second World War / Penny Elaine Starns and Martin L. Parsons -- Innocent victims and heroic defenders : children and the Siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.
