Children and War : a Historical Anthology.
"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."--Canadian Journal of History. The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was pu...
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2002
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Memory and Meaning; 1 Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution; 2 "After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor"; 3 Flowers of Evil: Mass Media, Child Psychology, and theStruggle for Russia's Future during the First World War; 4 Imagining Anzac; 5 Rescue and Trauma: Jewish Children and theKindertransports during the Holocaust; 6 Mama, Are We Going to Die? America's ChildrenConfront the Cuban Missile Crisis; 7 Bereavement in a War Zone; Lessons and Literature.
- 8 Representations of War and Martial Heroes in EnglishElementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885-19149 The Child in the Flying Machine; 10 World Friendship; 11 Ghosts and the Machine; 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January-August 1945; 13 The Antifascist Narrative; 14 Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times ofWar and the History of Children's Rights, 1919-1959; Actors and Victims; 15 "These Unfortunate Children"; 16 Children and the New Zealand Wars; 17 Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians; 18 "Baptized in Blood"; 19 "Too Young for a Uniform"; 20 Against Their Will.
- 21 Innocent Victims and Heroic DefendersEpilogue; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
