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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Preface (page vii)
Prologue (page 1)
1 Children of the Covenant (page 7)
2 Red, White, and Black in Colonial America (page 32)
3 Sons and Daughters of Liberty (page 53)
4 Inventing the Middle-Class Child (page 75)
5 Growing Up in Bondage (page 94)
6 Childhood Battles of the Civil War (page 118)
7 Laboring Children (page 133)
8 Save the Child (page 154)
9 Children under the Magnifying Glass (page 185)
10 New to the Promised Land (page 200)
11 Revolt of Modern Youth (page 213)
12 Coming of Age in the Great Depression (page 233)
13 Mobilizing Children for World War II (page 254)
14 In Pursuit of the Perfect Childhood (page 275)
15 Youthquake (page 310)
16 Parental Panics and the Reshaping of Childhood (page 335)
17 The Unfinished Century of the Child (page 372)
Notes (page 387)
Index (page 437)
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