Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood.(Book review) From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Southern Historical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 445. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-674-01998-9; cloth, $29.50, ISBN 0-674-01508-8.)

Steven Mintz has accomplished the formidable task of writing a history of American childhood from colonial times to the present, one that encompasses the experiences of children from infancy to the age of eighteen, changing adult understandings of childhood, and the diversifying effects of class, gender, and race/ethnicity. He starts with the ...

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