In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Here, the authors extract common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds, and show how the experience of modernity varies for young people.

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Foreword by Paula S. Fass
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Good to Think With: History, Space, and Modern Childhood
MARTA GUTMAN AND NING DE CONINCK-SMITH

PART ONE: Child Saving and the Design of Modern Childhoods
1 Connecting with the Landscape: Campfires and Youth Culture at American Summer Camps, 1890–1950
ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK
2 A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform
DAVID C. SLOANE
3 Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home
ANNMARIE ADAMS AND PETER GOSSAGE
4 The “Myers Park Experiment” in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913–1916
ANÉNE CUSINS-LEWER AND JULIA GATLEY

PART TWO: The Choreography of Education and Play
5 A Breath of Fresh Air: Open-Air Schools in Europe
ANNE-MARIE CHÂTELET
6 Molding the Republican Generation: The Landscapes of Learning in Early Republican Turkey
ZEYNEP KEZER
7 Nomadic Schools in Senegal: Manifestations of Integration or Ritual Performance?
KRISTINE JUUL
8 Adventure Playgrounds and Postwar Reconstruction
ROY KOZLOVSKY

PART THREE: Space, Power, and Inequality in
Modern Childhoods
9 The View from the Back Step: White Children Learn about Race in Johannesburg’s Suburban Homes
REBECCA GINSBURG
10 Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South
MARY S. HOFFSCHWELLE
11 The Geographies and Identities of Street Girls in Indonesia
HARRIOT BEAZLEY

PART FOUR: Consumption, Commodification, and the Media: Material Culture and Contemporary Childhoods
12 Coming of Age in Suburbia: Gifting the Consumer Child
ALISON J. CLARKE
13 Inscribing Nordic Childhoodsat McDonald’s
HELENE BREMBECK
14 “Board with the World”: Youthful Approaches to Landscapes and Mediascapes
OLAV CHRISTENSEN
15 Migrating Media: Anime Media Mixes and the Childhood Imagination
MIZUKO ITO

Epilogue: The Islanding of Children: Reshaping the Mythical Landscapes of Childhood
JOHN R. GILLIS

Notes on Contributors
Index