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Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood

by Steven Mintz (Author)

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    Illustrated 2006

    $34.38
Synopsis

For more than three centuries, adults have agonised over raising children, while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Steven Mintz gives us a comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 464
 Edition: Annotated
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0674019989
ISBN 13: 9780674019980
Book Overview: Huck's Raft is a rich and fascinating study of the realities of children's lives--and adults' ideas about children and our responsibilities towards them--throughout our nation's history. -- Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund Huck's Raft is simply the best overview of the history of childhood in the US. Through masterful scholarship and lively writing, it persuasively exposes some widespread myths about family history, while telling fascinating stories about children's lives past and present. Mintz's work shows that historical understanding can guide our responses to the problems of children today. -- Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction Steven Mintz's Huck's Raft is the most comprehensive, culturally sensitive history of American childhood ever written. It illuminates in fascinating detail the variegated experience of the nation's children, but it is equally successful in revealing the mentalities of the adults who have shaped childhood over time. This book is sure to become the standard in the field -- John R. Gillis, author of A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values At last, a synthesis of the scattered research on the history of youth. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Mintz's book is sure to become a classic. -- Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap Huck's Raft is a breath of fresh air. This engaging and compelling account of the history of childhood in America is a tonic by a first-rate historian that is both scholarly and beautifully written. A must read for all those concerned with our youth today and in times past. -- Frank F. Furstenberg, author of Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success Steven Mintz's remarkable and comprehensive book provides the first important synthesis of childhood in American history. Learned and rich in detail, it will become indispensable for all those who want to know more about children's experiences over the past 400 years. -- Paula Fass, author of Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America

Media Reviews
[An] often fascinating and massively documented exploration of four centuries of American childhood... Huck's Raft is a work of scholarly integrity and humanist zeal. - Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning.