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Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony S. Duff

Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony By S. Duff

Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony by S. Duff


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This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony.

Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony Summary

Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 by S. Duff

This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony.

About S. Duff

SE Duff is Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is on histories of childhood, sexuality, and medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Funded by a prestigious Research Career Advancement Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, her current project investigates histories of sex education in twentieth-century South Africa.

Table of Contents

Contents 1. A Changing Church: Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism 2. Changing Childhoods: Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape 3. Raising Children for Christ: Childrearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time 4. The Crying Need: Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s 5. Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children's Relief Act

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NLS9781349479504
9781349479504
1349479500
Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 by S. Duff
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-01-01
206
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