Research Catalog

Title

Changing childhoods in the Cape Colony : Dutch Reformed Church evangelicalism and colonial childhood, 1860-1895 / S.E. Duff, Researcher, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Author

Duff, S. E. (Sarah Emily), 1982-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New york, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

xi, 206 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This is the first book to trace the history of childhood and youth in nineteenth-century South Africa. This book examines how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation in the late nineteenth century. Specifically, it considers how the Dutch Reformed Church--the only organisation to evince any sustained interest in colonial childhood--attempted to mould, particularly, white childhoods. The book then traces the colonial state's increasing interest in the education and welfare of white children from the 1870s onwards, positioning this concern within a wider context of debates over poor whiteism and an emergent Afrikaner nationalism. Concluding with a discussion of the 1895 Destitute Children Relief Act, the book suggests that this legislation was the first attempt in the Cape to define precisely who a white child was, and what should constitute a white childhood. Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony opens up the history of childhood and youth in South African historiography, and contributes new ways of understanding not only the region's industrialisation, but also histories of ideas around race, poor whiteism, and domesticity"--

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in the history of childhood

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.

Subject

• Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk > History > 19th century
• Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk
• 1800 - 1899
• Church work with children > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Children, White > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Youth, White > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Poor white people > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Evangelicalism > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Industrialization > Social aspects > History > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > 19th century
• Social change > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century
• Nationalism > Social aspects > History > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > 19th century
• Children, White
• Church work with children
• Evangelicalism
• Industrialization > Social aspects
• Nationalism > Social aspects
• Poor whites
• Social change
• Social conditions
• Youth, White
• Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > Social conditions > 19th century
• South Africa > Cape of Good Hope

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 15-3818

ISBN

• 9781137380937 (hardback)
• 1137380934 (hardback)
• 9781137380944 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015002370

OCLC

902659542

Author

Duff, S. E. (Sarah Emily), 1982- author.

Title

Changing childhoods in the Cape Colony : Dutch Reformed Church evangelicalism and colonial childhood, 1860-1895 / S.E. Duff, Researcher, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New york, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in the history of childhood

Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Other Form:

ebook version 9781137380944

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3818