Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television

by Neil Sutherland

Childhood is a socially constructed state that can differ significantly from culture to culture and period to period. The history of childhood is rapidly emerging as an important area of study. Neil Sutherland looks at children's lives in modern, industrialized, pre-television Canada, from before the First World War to the 1960s. Based on adult memories of childhood, this book investigates a wide selection of experiences of growing up. Sutherland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079830
• ISBN13: 9780802079831
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher