Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class Bruce Emily C.
Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class Bruce Emily C. How did we come to imagine what "ideal childhood" requires? This new approach was in part a process that…
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Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class Bruce Emily C.
How did we come to imagine what "ideal childhood" requires? This new approach was in part a process that adults imposed on youth, one that hinged on motivating children's behavior through affection and cultivating internal discipline. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a life stage critical to self-formation.
Offering rare glimpses of young students' diaries, letters, and marginalia, Emily C. But this is not just a story about parents' and pedagogues' efforts to shape childhood. Bruce reveals how children themselves negotiated these changes.Revolutions at Home analyzes a rich set of documents created for and by young Germans to show that children were central to reinventing