Not I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not I write by Joachim Fest. This book was released on 2024-08-13. Not I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Play World
The Play World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Play World write by Patricia Anne Simpson. This book was released on 2021-03-09. The Play World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' write by Dirk Schumann. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood, research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S. and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private and the public spheres intersected, on notions of “race” and “ethnicity,” “normality” and “deviance,” and on the impact of wars and changes in political regimes.
The Way Home
The Way Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way Home write by Ernestine Bradley. This book was released on 2006-03-14. The Way Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Growing up in Bavaria during World War II, Ernestine Bradley came to know wartime dislocations and food shortages, along with the challenges of taking care of her siblings while her mother was ill. The men of her hometown were away at war, but their absence created an exciting unexpected freedom–a freedom she sought again at 21 when she became a stewardess, moved to New York and went on to marry a shy basketball star who played for the New York Knicks. Yet the paradoxes of her childhood shaped Bradley’s life. Her hard-won discipline helped her maintain a full-time career as a professor while she commuted weekly to Washington and her husband’s public life; and Germany’s literary response to the holocaust of which she had been unaware became her scholarly passion. Cancer confronted her with a personal war, ultimately demanding a vulnerability she had never allowed herself. Frank, warm, and deeply moving, The Way Home is an inspiring American story.
The English Struwwelpeter
The English Struwwelpeter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Struwwelpeter write by Heinrich Hoffmann. This book was released on 1903. The English Struwwelpeter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
