Children's Nature : The Rise of the American Summer Camp / Leslie Paris.
Paris, Leslie, author.
2008
GV192.8 .P37 2010
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Title Children's Nature : The Rise of the American Summer Camp / Leslie Paris.
Author Paris, Leslie, author.
ISBN 9780814768426
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768426.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814768426.001.0001 doi
Call Number GV192.8 .P37 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.5420973
Summary For over a century, summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighborhoods. Each summer, children experience the pain of homesickness, learn to swim, and sit around campfires at night. Children's Nature chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Leslie Paris investigates how camps came to matter so greatly to so many Americans, while providing a window onto the experiences of the children who attended them and the aspirations of the adults who created them. Summer camps helped cement the notion of childhood as a time apart, at once protected and playful. Camp leaders promised that campers would be physically and morally invigorated by fresh mountain air, simple food, daily swimming, and group living, and thus better fit for the year to come. But camps were important as well because children delighted in them, helped to shape them, and felt transformed by them. Focusing primarily on the northeast, where camps were first founded and the industry grew most extensively, and drawing on a range of sources including camp films, amateur performances, brochures, oral histories, letters home, industry journals, camp newspapers, and scrapbooks, Children's Nature brings this special and emotionally resonant world to life.
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Series American History and Culture ; ; 5
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Warm History of Modern Childhood
Part I At Work and at Play The Making of Camp "Family"
1 Small Islands: The First Summer Camps
2 "A Home Though Away from Home": How Parents, Camp Owners, and Children Forged Camp Networks
3 Rituals of the Season: The Organization of Camp Community
4 Between Generations: Tensions in the Camp "Family"
Part II Modernity and Tradition in Children's Socialization
5 Is It Progress? Modernity and Authenticity in Camp Life
6 Tans, Tepees, and Minstrel Shows: Race, Primitivism, and Camp Community
7 The Pioneer Ideal: Camp History, American History, Children's History
Conclusion "I Had to Go On in Life": From Camp to Childhood Nostalgia
Abbreviations of Archives
Notes
Index
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