personal narratives taken from an array of archival sources. Many of the American’s profiled in her work are known only because of the accidental preservation of their words across time, while others such as Ulysses S. Grant are famous products of particular American childhoods. From a broader perspective of childhood studies, this work is an excellent example of how childhood offers a very potent and germane platform to examine aspects of human communities on many scales. The consideration of how parenting, community investment, and American ideals all intersect around the idea of childhood across a 200-year period of history is a powerful illustration of how the cultural construction of childhood reveals much about a particular society. This book is highly recommended for those seeking an introduction to American childhood, to those interested in engaging ideas of parenting and family in the past, those undertaking multi-scalar studies of childhood, and those wishing to introduce students to the historiography and social history of childhood.

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家居装饰

从一系列档案资料中提取的个人叙述。在她的作品中描绘的许多美国人之所以为人所知，只是因为他们的话随着时间的推移被意外地保存了下来，而诸如尤利西斯·S·格兰特 (Ulysses S. Grant) 之类的其他人则是特定美国童年时期的著名产物。从更广泛的童年研究角度来看，这项工作是一个很好的例子，说明童年如何提供一个非常有效和密切的平台，以在许多尺度上检查人类社区的各个方面。对育儿、社区投资和美国理想在 200 年历史中如何与童年观念相交的考虑有力地说明了童年的文化建设如何揭示特定社会的许多情况。这本书强烈推荐给那些想要了解美国童年的人，