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Making Americans : children's literature from 1930 to 1960 / Gary D. Schmidt.
- Title
- Making Americans : children's literature from 1930 to 1960 / Gary D. Schmidt.
- Author
- Schmidt, Gary D.
- Publication
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,, [2013]
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- Description
- xxviii, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- Children's literature from 1930 to 1960
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- Children's literature, American > History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Democracy in literature
- Children's literature > Publishing > History > United States > 20th century
- Children > Books and reading > History > United States > 20th century
- Children > Books and reading
- Children's literature, American
- Children's literature > Publishing
- Democracy
- Literature
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Imagining American democracy: self-reliance and social cooperation -- James Daugherty: the democracy of the American pioneer -- Defining American democracy: normalizing inclusion -- The "Childhood of Famous Americans" series: challenges to mythic narratives -- Adapting American democracy: responding to the urgencies of war -- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire: America as the land of opportunity -- Globalizing American democracy: exporting the American heritage -- Virginia Lee Burton and Robert McCloskey: (in)security in America.
- ISBN
- 9781609381929 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 1609381920 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9781609382216 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 1609382218 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013010352
- OCLC
- 840937184
- SCSB-10621764
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library