This diverse collection addresses not only the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, but also children themselves as agents in the formation of that culture.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: .

... century, andthat the (foreshortened) Twentieth centuryreally began inAugust, 1914and ended in 1989,with thecollapse of theUSSR,as opposed to the more conventional parentheses of19001999. There areeven afew superfringe thinkers who say ...

... child performers died away early in the nineteenth century.4 Indeed, child stars remained so visible that an 1878 issue of The Theatre includes a lengthy editorial calling for their banishment from the stage. After acknowledging that ...

The conflict is not in whether the protagonist will succeed in breaking away into upward mobility; that becomes obvious early in the narrative, but in demonstrating how, first with the help of intensive military training, and then with a ...