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The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
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Sharon Wall
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
The history of summer camps as seen through antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity.
This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps.
Author / Editor information
Sharon Wall is an assistant professor of history at the University of Winnipeg.
Reviews
Keith Walden, Department of History, Trent University:
The Nurture of Nature represents a major study of an important but neglected subject. It is an important contribution to the study of leisure and recreation in Canada, to the understanding of the character of modernity, and to the history of summer camps.
The Nurture of Nature represents a major study of an important but neglected subject. It is an important contribution to the study of leisure and recreation in Canada, to the understanding of the character of modernity, and to the history of summer camps.
From the Foreword by Graeme Wynn:
By seeking and revealing the cultural meanings of "fresh air" and "wilderness” camping," and of the activities in which campers engaged ... Sharon Wall has produced a multifaceted study that has much to say to historians of the environment. Time and again, The Nurture of Nature reveals the contradictory qualities of the summer camp, even as it offers new insights into the ways in which Canadians struggled to find meaning in modernity.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 1, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780774816410
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
392
Other:
38 b&w photos, 1 map
eBook ISBN:
9780774816410
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
