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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Race and Colonization
1 Indian Children in Early Mexico
2 Colonizing Childhood
3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities
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"The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder"
"I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It"
Part II Family and Society
4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods
5 "I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It"
6 "Improved" and "Very Promising Children"
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"A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter"
"A Most Agreeable Family"
Part III Cares and Tribulations
7 "Decrepit in Their Early Youth"
8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts
9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child"
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"I Had Eight Birds Hatcht in One Nest"
Part IV Becoming Americans
10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women
11 "Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed"
12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty
Documents
"Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play"
"A Bookish Inclination"
In Search of the Historical Child
Suggested Readings
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Race and Colonization
1 Indian Children in Early Mexico
2 Colonizing Childhood
3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities
Documents
"The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder"
"I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It"
Part II Family and Society
4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods
5 "I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It"
6 "Improved" and "Very Promising Children"
Documents
"A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter"
"A Most Agreeable Family"
Part III Cares and Tribulations
7 "Decrepit in Their Early Youth"
8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts
9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child"
Documents
"I Had Eight Birds Hatcht in One Nest"
Part IV Becoming Americans
10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women
11 "Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed"
12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty
Documents
"Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play"
"A Bookish Inclination"
In Search of the Historical Child
Suggested Readings
About the Contributors
Index