Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960

by Laura Lee Downs

Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats intended to restore the fragile health of poor urban children. Participation grew steadily throughout the first half of the twentieth century, "trickling up" by the late 1940s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329441
• ISBN13: 9780822329442
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"