Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Preface xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I New Childhoods for Old: Changing Ideas and Institutions
7. CHAPTER ONE “National Assets”: Children in a Transforming Nation 11
8. CHAPTER TWO “The Century of the Child”: Science, the State, and Modern Childhood 40
9. CHAPTER THREE The First Known World: Home and Family 70
10. CHAPTER FOUR “The Golden Rule”: School and Nation 105
11. CHAPTER FIVE The Children’s Church: The Meanings of Christianity in Children’s Lives 171
12. CHAPTER SIX The “Stuff” of Childhood: Creating the Juvenile Marketplace 197
13. CHAPTER SEVEN “Play is the Real Work of Children”: How Children Had Fun 247
14. PART II Growing Up in Troubled Times: The Great War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War
15. CHAPTER EIGHT “Fighting for Our Dear Old Flag”: The Great War and the New Day 295
16. CHAPTER NINE “There Was a Cloud Over Us”: Children of the Great Depression 338
17. CHAPTER TEN “Taking Up the Torch”: Children and Another Big War 367
18. PART III Post-War Childhoods: The Cold War and Societal Shifts
19. CHAPTER ELEVEN Growing Up Atomic: Cold War Childhoods 401
20. CHAPTER TWELVE The More Things Change: Heading to Millennium 452
21. CONCLUSION “Ring Around the Maple”: Canadian Children and Childhoods 503
22. NOTES 509
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 599
24. INDEX 677