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Sutherland, Neil Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Great Depression
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London , 1997, ISBN:0802079830
Sutherland, Neil. Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Great Depression. Toronto, Buffalo, London : University of TorontoPress, (1997). First Printing. Pp (6), [vii]-xviii,(2),[3]-327,(7). 8vo, c ardcovers.. "Childhood is a socially constructed state that can differ significantly from culture to culture and period to period. The history of childhood is rapidly emerging as an important area of study. Neil Sutherland looks at children's lives in modern, industrialized, yet pre-television Canada, from before the First World War to the 1960s. Based on adult memories ofchildhood, this book investigates a wide selection of experiences of growi ng up. Sutherland lays out the structure of children's lives in such settings as the home, the classroom, the church, the streets, and the playgrounds: in short in the communities of childhood. He explains how children arrived at their gender, class, and other identities, and how they came to adopt the values they did. Sutherland focuses on recurrent, common features of the everyday life of children. This book offers a unique, child-centred approach developed by a leading expert on the history of Canadian childhood. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language and illustrated with numerousphotographs, it will be of special interest to those in the fields of soci al and educational history. Also, because Sutherland is successful in describing the perceptions and feelings of children, it will intrigue anyone whogrew up in this period or who wants to understand the experiences of frien ds and family who did." - p.[1]. Very good. 20.00
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