Growing Up in America offers substantial and dramatic evidence         that the history of childhood has come of age. Its authors demonstrate         the breadth and depth of interest, as well as high quality of work, in         a field that is finally attracting the attention it deserves. Strongly         influenced by new social history and its concern for the powerless and         inarticulate, Growing Up in America provides illuminating insights         on children from infancy to adolescence and from the colonial period to present.       "The very title of this fine and enormously instructive anthology         of essays makes its quiet but important point---that children grow up         in a particular nation, rather than in a family or home isolated from         the influence of social, cultural, political, and historical forces. .         . . An admirably diverse and instructive collection."         -- Georgia Historical Quarterly   Read Less