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- Book Title
- Childhood on the Farm : Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the MidWest
- Publication Name
- Childhood on the Farm
- Title
- Childhood on the Farm
- Subtitle
- Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780700613885
- ISBN
- 9780700613885
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, United States / General, Sociology / Rural
- Release Date
- 30/06/2005
- Release Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation's heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses--both nostalgic and realistic--of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources--not only memoirs and diaries but also census data--to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post-Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children's work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play--much of it homemade--to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700613889
ISBN-13
9780700613885
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44472821
Product Key Features
Book Title
Childhood on the Farm : Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the MidWest
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, United States / General, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2005
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F354.R57 2005
Reviews
Anyone who was ever touched by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books must read Childhood on the Farm . . . . A remarkably poignant and evocative account that resurrects a vanished world.-- Steven Mintz , author of Hucks Raft: A History of American Childhood Finally, country children are heard as well as seen. . . . A thoroughly researched, crisply written, and richly illustrated study of an important but neglected subject that adds a valuable new dimension to the field of rural history.-- Hal S. Barron , author of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 18701930, "A valuable foundation for assessing historically the distinctions Americans make between child and adult, farm and city, work and recreation."-- American Journal of Play "A lively and richly illustrated study of rural childhood in the Midwest between 1870 and 1920. . . . Riney-Kehrberg uses the voices of children to tell a story of rural childhood as neither a wholesome experience of close families and healthful environments nor a life of toilsome labor."-- Western Historical Quarterly "A sometimes moving, always engaging evocation of a strenuous path that most children once followed to adulthood."-- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era "An accessible, engaging work, deserving of a wide readership."-- Journal of American History "A valuable contribution to the history of the Midwest generally, and the history of childhood in the United States specifically. . . . As far as providing a glimpse into the work lives of twentieth-century rural youth, this book is very likely the best that is available."-- American Historical Review "Offers a poignant, highly evocative account of farm childhood as viewed largely through the eyes of the children themselves."-- Journal of Social History "Through extensive and painstaking research, Riney-Kehrberg has written the story of the children who grew up on midwestern farms between 1870 and 1920. . . . The book is richly illustrated with family photographs and illustrations. . . . This book is a nice compilation of rare and important resources [and is] interesting and well written . . . "-- Minnesota History "Its notes and bibliographies should be a valuable resource for any future consideration of childhood in North America. . . . A major pleasure this book provides are the many quotations from writings of young people."-- Great Plains Quarterly "An important contribution to the growing field of children in history, helping to fill the void of rural children in history created by historians who have focused on the urban working child experience."-- Journal of Illinois History "Teems with a variety of carefully selected illustrations, nearly fifty in all, showing farm children at work or play. The illustrations [are] often charming or amusing. . . . The book's detail and illustrations evoke vivid images of an appealing, if sometimes appalling, now-lost world."-- Nebraska History "The volume's strengths come from careful selection and use of personal accounts; illustrations that tell their own stories; and engaging narrative. [This book] challenges us to think about what it meant to grow up rural while the nation as a whole was becoming something quite different."-- Kansas History "Takes readers on a journey into the day-to-day lives of rural Midwestern children from 1870 to 1920. Far from a dry historical account, the book contains engaging narratives written by the children themselves. These personal stories, plus period photographs, letters and memoirs, vividly show how children experienced work, schooling, play, adolescence, and family relationships during an era when the nation was moving from an agricultural economy to an industrial one."-- Des Moines Sunday Register, Anyone who was ever touched by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books must read Childhood on the Farm . . . . A remarkably poignant and evocative account that resurrects a vanished world.-- Steven Mintz , author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood Finally, country children are heard as well as seen. . . . A thoroughly researched, crisply written, and richly illustrated study of an important but neglected subject that adds a valuable new dimension to the field of rural history.-- Hal S. Barron , author of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930, "Anyone who was ever touched by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books must read Childhood on the Farm . . . . A remarkably poignant and evocative account that resurrects a vanished world."- Steven Mintz , author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood "Finally, country children are heard as well as seen. . . . A thoroughly researched, crisply written, and richly illustrated study of an important but neglected subject that adds a valuable new dimension to the field of rural history."- Hal S. Barron , author of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930, "Anyone who was ever touched by Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books must read Childhood on the Farm . . . . A remarkably poignant and evocative account that resurrects a vanished world."-- Steven Mintz , author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood "Finally, country children are heard as well as seen. . . . A thoroughly researched, crisply written, and richly illustrated study of an important but neglected subject that adds a valuable new dimension to the field of rural history."-- Hal S. Barron , author of Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "I Would Rather Live in the Country": A Child's Place 2. "But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of You Do?": Farm Children as Laborers 3. "We Have Splendid Times at School": Farm Children and Education 4. "Today Is the First School-Day": Farm Youth as Rural Teachers: The Stories of Hermann Benke and Rhoda Emery Photographic Essay. Growing Up in Dodge County, Wisconsin 5. "It Surely Pays to Go to a Circus": Farm Children and Youth at Play 6. "This Case Is a Peculiarly Hard One": Farm Child Welfare and the State 7. "I Wouldn't Live in the City Always for Anything": Growing Up and Making Decisions 8. Epilogue: "We Are at Home With the Land": Remembering Farm Childhood Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-000911
Dewey Decimal
305.23097709034
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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