Children at play : an American history /
Hear the author interview on NPR's Morning Edition. If you believe the experts, "child's play"; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from anthropologists to social critics, writers have produced mountains of books about the meaning and importance of play. B...
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Childhood and play in early America, 1600-1800
- The attempt to domesticate childhood and play, 1800-1850
- The stuff of childhood, 1850-1900
- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950
- The golden age of unstructured play, 1900-1950
- The commercialization and co-optation of children's play, 1950 to the present
- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present
- Conclusion.