Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History: National, Colonial and Global Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood....Pages 12-34
Feeling Like a Child: Narratives of Development and the Indian Child/Wife....Pages 35-55
Teaching, Learning and Adapting Emotions in Uganda’s Child Leprosy Settlement, c. 1930–1962....Pages 56-75
Settler Childhood, Protestant Christianity and Emotions in Colonial New Zealand, 1880s–1920s....Pages 76-94
Architecture, Emotions and the History of Childhood....Pages 95-118
Space and Emotional Experience in Victorian and Edwardian English Public School Dormitories....Pages 119-138
Emotional Regimes and School Policy in Colombia, 1800–1835....Pages 139-157
Feeling Like a Citizen: The American Legion’s Boys State Programme and the Promise of Americanism....Pages 158-177
Disciplining Young People’s Emotions in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early German Democratic Republic....Pages 178-197
Inscribing War Orphans’ Losses into the Language of the Nation in Wartime China, 1937–1945....Pages 198-220
Everyday Emotional Practices of Fathers and Children in Late Colonial Bengal, India....Pages 221-241
Anti-vaccination and the Politics of Grief for Children in Late Victorian England....Pages 242-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-264