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Four Generations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Four Generations

A groundbreaking study in colonial history, this book gives a remarkably detailed picture of life in an early American community. It focuses on three basic and interrelated subjects largely neglected by historians—population, land, and the family—as they affected the lives of four successive generations. Applying demographic methods to historical research, Professor Greven presents new and unexpected evidence about the most basic aspects of family life in colonial America, and shows how these characteristics changed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Spare the Child
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Spare the Child

Religious roots of punishment and phychological impact of physical abuse.

The Protestant Temperament
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

The Protestant Temperament

Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—Philip Greven explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared in America. In tracing the hidden continuities of religious experience, of attitudes toward God, children, the self, sexuality, pleasure, virtue, and achievement, Greven identifies three distinct Protestant temperaments prevailing among Americans at the time: the Evangelical, the Moderate, and the General. The Protestant Temperament is a powerful reassessment of the role of child-rearing and religion in early American life.

Children in Colonial America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Children in Colonial America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Examining the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late 16th and late 18th centuries, this text contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonisation shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.

The Child in Christian Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

The Child in Christian Thought

A collection of seventeen essays presenting theological perspectives on children throughout history. Discusses the care of children, their spiritual education, and the role of parents, the church, and the state in raising children.

The Politics of Denial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Politics of Denial

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

What is the driving force behind the rage of America's white males? Emotion appears to be playing a growing role in politics, as evidenced by vociferous opposition to welfare, abortion, and immigrants, as well as by the rise of the radical Religious Right, antienvironmentalism, and the increasingly neoconservative slant of American public opinion. The Politics of Denial presents a compelling explanation of these phenomena, providing solid empirical evidence for the role of rigid, harsh child-rearing practices in the creation of punitive, authoritarian adult political attitudes. The authors, social psychologists, show how both the political and the public policy processes in the United States are distorted by the unresolved negative emotions (such as fear, anger, and helplessness) that remain from punitive parenting and by the politicians and conservative religious leaders who exploit those emotions. Among the many public figures discussed are Patrick Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, and Billy Graham.

Through a Glass Darkly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Through a Glass Darkly

These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early America

A New England Town
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

A New England Town

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The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1832
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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W Stands for Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

W Stands for Women

DIVEssays that examine the Bush adminstration's deployment of feminist rhetoric and the effects of the administration's policies on women, feminism, and gender roles in the U.S./div