Table of Contents

1 Childhood, Memory, and the American Revolution 2 "After the War I Am Going to Put Myself a Sailor" 3 Flowers of Evil 4 Imagining Anzac 5 Rescue and Trauma 6 Mama, Are We Going to Die? America's Children Confront the Cuban Missile Crisis 7 Bereavement in a War Zone 8 Representations of War and Martial Heroes in English Elementary School Reading and Rituals, 1885-1914 9 The Child in the Flying Machine 10 World Friendship 11 Ghosts and the Machine 12 Japanese Children and the Culture of Death, January-August 1945 13 The Antifascist Narrative 14 Humanitarian Sympathy for Children in Times of War and the History of Children's Rights, 1919-1959 15 "These Unfortunate Children": Sons and Daughters of the Regiment in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France 16 Children and the New Zealand War 17 Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians 18 "Baptized in Blood" 19 "Too Young for a Uniform" 20 Against Their Will 21 Innocent Victims and Heroic Defenders

Promotional Information

Although the scale on which children are affected by war may be greater today than at any time since the world wars of the twentieth century, children have been a part of conflict since the beginning of warfare. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to home front war efforts.

About the Author

James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including The Children’s Civil War and four NYU Press books: Children and War: A Historical Anthology; Children in Colonial America; Children and Youth in a New Nation; and Children and Youth during the Civil War Era.

Reviews

"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."--Canadian Journal of History