Australian Childhood: A HistoryThis is a complete history of the experience of childhood in Australia. It explores changing patterns of child-rearing and schooling, the care of children, their games, toys and leisure, their work, distinctions based on class, gender and race. It deals with child poverty and health through history, and changing adult perceptions of childhood and adolescence. It is a readable social history of the hcild which also fills a gap in Australian historiography. |
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... became tramps , begging around rural parishes and sleeping under hedges or in poor- houses until winter drove them into the towns . Here , some became ' mudlarks ' , scavenging along the Thames for coal , rope and dockyard items to sell ...
... became tramps , begging around rural parishes and sleeping under hedges or in poor- houses until winter drove them into the towns . Here , some became ' mudlarks ' , scavenging along the Thames for coal , rope and dockyard items to sell ...
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... became available for ' rescue ' . In about 1790 convict George Bath took in ' James ' whose parents were shot at Toongabbie . In 1796 , when Aboriginal people were at war with the first thirty - acre farmers along the Hawkesbury , Rev ...
... became available for ' rescue ' . In about 1790 convict George Bath took in ' James ' whose parents were shot at Toongabbie . In 1796 , when Aboriginal people were at war with the first thirty - acre farmers along the Hawkesbury , Rev ...
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... became extremely influen- tial , helping to shape government policies to Aboriginal issues for the next 200 years . The missionaries ' agenda was shared by a mixed group of British liberal reformers whose influence gained momentum from ...
... became extremely influen- tial , helping to shape government policies to Aboriginal issues for the next 200 years . The missionaries ' agenda was shared by a mixed group of British liberal reformers whose influence gained momentum from ...
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... became fundamental to later state policies , sim- ilarly considered liberal and humane , but in fact cruel and destructive . In the meantime , convict children arriving in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land were put through very ...
... became fundamental to later state policies , sim- ilarly considered liberal and humane , but in fact cruel and destructive . In the meantime , convict children arriving in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land were put through very ...
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... became customary to assign to them up to ten convict workers at the state's expense , a service not generally available to ex - convict farmers . This practice allowed officers to acquire most of the profit ( and sterling currency ) ...
... became customary to assign to them up to ten convict workers at the state's expense , a service not generally available to ex - convict farmers . This practice allowed officers to acquire most of the profit ( and sterling currency ) ...
Contents
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nativeborn children of convicts | 38 |
children of the colonial elite | 55 |
children fathers and gold | 72 |
middleclass domestic ideology | 91 |
the street the factory | 112 |
medicalising middleclass childhood | 130 |
doctors psychologists and the unfit child | 148 |
childhood mass culture | 172 |
Decolonising childhood | 194 |
Infantilising adolescence | 216 |
Endnotes | 235 |
Select bibliography | 251 |
Index | 269 |
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