[PDF] War And Childhood In The Era Of The Two World Wars eBook

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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781108582070

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The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven by geopolitical rivalries and expansionist policies. Taking a global perspective, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of experiences and places. In addition to showing how the engagement of children and youth with war differed according to geography, technology, class, age, race, gender, and the nature of the state, they reveal how children acquired agency during the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.

Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108478530

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This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.

Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108625762

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The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them in the face of massive industrialized warfare driven by geopolitical rivalries and expansionist policies. Taking a global perspective, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of experiences and places. In addition to showing how the engagement of children and youth with war differed according to geography, technology, class, age, race, gender, and the nature of the state, they reveal how children acquired agency during the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.

Author : Paula S. Fass
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812205162

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In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States and continue to organize our perceptions and sensibilities to this day. But that childhood is now being recreated. Many social and political developments since the end of the World War II have fundamentally altered the lives children lead and are now beginning to transform conceptions of childhood. Reinventing Childhood After World War II brings together seven prominent historians of modern childhood to identify precisely what has changed in children's lives and why. Topics range from youth culture to children's rights; from changing definitions of age to nontraditional families; from parenting styles to how American experiences compare with those of the rest of the Western world. Taken together, the essays argue that children's experiences have changed in such dramatic and important ways since 1945 that parents, other adults, and girls and boys themselves have had to reinvent almost every aspect of childhood. Reinventing Childhood After World War II presents a striking interpretation of the nature and status of childhood that will be essential to students and scholars of childhood, as well as policy makers, educators, parents, and all those concerned with the lives of children in the world today.

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317318048

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In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

Author : Elon Perry
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 103610852X

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Author Elon Perry uniquely combines the narrative of a challenging childhood amidst wartime struggles with the gripping tale of military service in a commando unit. The book differs from other books on the subject because the plot revolves around two themes: a difficult and impoverished childhood during times of war, and military service in a commando unit, carried out with the aim of exacting revenge on the enemy and featuring vivid and detailed descriptions of battles. In the book, real stories and events are infused, including daring operations from the battlefield. Some of these accounts have never before been published, and only today, 40 years after the events, has the Israeli censorship allowed them to be shared. This story can be an inspiration to people who find themselves in desperate situations. They can learn how against all odds and in any given situation one can survive difficulties, as long as one has the will, perseverance, and belief that anything is possible.

Author : Tara Zahra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674048245

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World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe’s lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.

Author : Kate Agnew
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A guide to literature for young readers about war in the twentieth century, especially the two world wars. Covers novels, autobiographies, comics, story-papers and picture-books.

Author : Candlewick Press
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763697737

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In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten. The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared, children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there, to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now, in a unique collection, RAF pilots, evacuees, resistance fighters, Land Girls, U.S. Navy sailors, and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories, passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs, this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.

Author : Graça Machel
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781850654858

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Graca Machel, UNICEF's special rapporteur, also scrutinises sexual crimes in time of war, the fate of orphans, the disproportionate suffering of children endure in civil wars, and their special vulnerability to such side-effects of conflict as famine, disease and social fragmentation. "The Impact of War on Children" is an urgent call to action-for the commitment and tenacity needed to protect children from the atrocities of war. Children present a uniquely compelling motivation for mobilisation, and an opportunity to confront the problems that cause their suffering. This book is complemented by 16 evocative photographs by Sebastiao Salgado, a documentary photographer of world renown, covering Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere.