Children and war : a historical anthology / edited by James Marten ; foreword by Robert Coles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marten, James Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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 published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the use of under-age soldiers. These and numerous other stories and programs have shown that the number of children impacted by war as victims, casualties, and participants has mounted drastically du

Contents:

Childhood, memory, and the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams

"After the war I am going to put myself a sailor" : geography, writing, and race in the letters of free children of color in Civil War New Orleans / Molly Mitchell

Flowers of evil : mass media, child psychology, and the struggle for Russia's future during the First World War / Aaron J. Cohen

Imagining Anzac : children's memories of the killing fields of the Great War / Bruce C. Scates

Rescue and trauma : Jewish children and the kindertransports during the Holocaust / Eric J. Sterling

Mama, are we going to die? : America's children confront the Cuban missile crisis / Chris O'Brien

Bereavement in a war zone : Liberia in the 1990s / Cynthia B. Eriksson and Elizabeth A. Rupp

Representations of war and martial heroes in English elementary school reading and rituals, 1885-1914 / Stephen Heathorn

The child in the flying machine : childhood and aviation in the First World War / Guillaume de Syon

World friendship : children, parents, and peace education in America between the wars / Diana Selig

Ghosts and the machine : teaching Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution since 1921 / Stephen E. Lewis

Japanese children and the culture of death, January-August 1945 / Owen Griffiths

The antifascist narrative : memory lessons in the schools of the Soviet occupation zone, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing

Humanitarian sympathy for children in times of war and the history of children's rights, 1919-1959 / Dominique Marshall

"These unfortunate children" : sons and daughters of the Regiment in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Thomas Cardoza

Children and the New Zealand wars : an exploration / Jeanine Marie Graham

Stolen generations and vanishing Indians : the removal of indigenous children as a weapon of war in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940 / Victoria Haskins and Margaret D. Jacobs

"Baptized in blood" : children in the time of the Sandino rebellion, Nicaragua, 1927-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder

"Too young for a uniform" : children's war work on the Iowa farm front, 1941-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian

Against their will : the use and abuse of British children during the Second World War / Penny Elaine Starns and Martin L. Parsons

Innocent victims and heroic defenders : children and the Siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-5998-X

OCLC:

780425958