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Children's Nature

The Rise of the American Summer Camp

ISBN-13: 9780814767825
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Leslie Paris
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Local release date: 09/06/2010
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 153.00mm) 364 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Camping & woodcraft [WSZR]

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Google Preview: For over a century, summer camps have provided many American childrens first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighbourhoods. Each summer, children experience the pain of homesickness, learn to swim, and sit around campfires at night. Childrens Nature chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Leslie Paris investigates how camps came to matter so greatly to so many Americans, while providing a window onto the experiences of the children who attended them and the aspirations of the adults who created them. Summer camps helped cement the notion of childhood as a time apart, at once protected and playful. Camp leaders promised that campers would be physically and morally invigorated by fresh mountain air, simple food, daily swimming, and group living, and thus better fit for the year to come. But camps were important as well because children delighted in them, helped to shape them, and felt transformed by them. Focusing primarily on the northeast, where camps were first founded and the industry grew most extensively, and drawing on a range of sources including camp films, amateur performances, brochures, oral histories, letters home, industry journals, camp newspapers, and scrapbooks, Childrens Nature brings this special and emotionally resonant world to life.; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Warm History of Modern Childhood I At Work and at Play: The Making of Camp "Family"1 Small Islands: The First Summer Camps 2 "A Home Though Away from Home": How Parents, Camp Owners, and Children Forged Camp Networks 3 Rituals of the Season: The Organization of Camp Community 4 Between Generations: Tensions in the Camp "Family"II Modernity and Tradition in Children's Socialization5 Is It Progress? Modernity and Authenticity in Camp Life 6 Tans, Tepees, and Minstrel Shows: Race, Primitivism, and Camp Community 7 The Pioneer Ideal: Camp History, American History, Children's History Conclusion: "I Had to Go On in Life": From Camp to Childhood Nostalgia Abbreviations of Archives Notes Index About the Author; Google Preview content

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