The world of children : foreign cultures in nineteenth-century German education and entertainment /: foreign cultures in nineteenth-century German education and entertainment. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß.
• Editors: Lässig, Simone, 1964-; (Historian), Weiss, Andreas
• Contents: List of Figures; Acknowledgements Introduction: Children, the Nation, and the World; Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß PART I: OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE Chapter 1. New Words and the New World: Language and the Transnational Legacy of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere ; Kirsten Belgum Chapter 2. Images of Land and Sea: Experiencing the World as Adventure through Theodor Dielitz’s Travel Anthologies for Young Readers, 1841–1862; Matthew O. Anderson Chapter 3. World Knowledge in Textbooks for French Language Teaching in the Nineteenth Century in Germany; Regina Schleicher Chapter 4. The World at War in German Textbooks: Knowledge of the World Conveyed in Representations of War; Andreas Weiß Chapter 5. When Nippon Became Prussian: The German Image of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Textbooks; Maik Fiedler PART II: LITERARY KNOWLEDGE Chapter 6. Thrilling Hearts and Winning Minds: The Representation of Monarchy, Navy, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Adventure Fiction; Miriam Magdalena Schneider Chapter 7. Knowing Others as Selves: German Children and American Indians; H. Glenn Penny Chapter 8. “Don’t you take pity on your little brothers and sisters in China?” Missionary Literature for Children and the Distribution of Relational Knowledge in Imperial Germany; Katharina Stornig PART III: KNOWLEDGE IN ENTERTAINMENT Chapter 9. Around the World in a Jiffy: Humorous Treatments of Around-the-World Travel in German Children’s Books and Games; Emer O’Sullivan Chapter 10. The Rise of the Trading Card: Collecting the World before World War I; Judith Blume Chapter 11. A World Made for Exploration: Germans and Their Toys, 1890–1914; David Hamlin Conclusion: Kaleidoscope and Lens: Re-envisioning the Past through the History of Knowledge; Simone Lässig Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (332 pages)
• Subjects: 372.943; Education, Elementary -- Germany -- History; Education, Secondary -- Germany -- History; Children's books -- Germany -- History; Games -- Germany -- History; Children -- Germany -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789202793; 1789202795
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