Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child": The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective (Studies in German History)

by Dirk Schumann (Editor)

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  2010

  $147.61

  The 20th century, declared at its start to be the Century of the ChildA by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone.