Children and Youth in America, Volume I: 1600-1865

by Robert Hamlett Bremner

Book Overview

More than nine generations of children grew up in America between the founding of the first English colonies and the end of the Civil War. This book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history. The editors have divided volume I into three units of time--1600-1735,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674116100
• ISBN13: 9780674116108
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 856 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 10.4"