Mintz, Steven: Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.(Book Review)

From: History: Review of New Books | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Mintz, Steven: Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood Cambridge: Harvard University Press 445 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01508-8 Publication Date: November 2004

Steven Mintz's Huck's Raft provides a most welcome synthesis of the burgeoning scholarship in the field of the history of American childhood. Mintz, the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston and National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, masterfully traces the changes in the diverse, and often difficult, experiences of children and youth, as well as in the ...

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