In this Book
- Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review
“Sutherland’s work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text.” J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Such were the reviewers’ comments when Neil Sutherland’s groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press’s new series “Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada,” with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.
Table of Contents
- PART I: 'ELEVATE THE HOME': Changing Attitudes to Children in English-Speaking Canada, 1870-1900
- PART II: TO CREATE A STRONG AND HEALTHY RACE': Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880-1920
- PART III: 'REMOVE THE YOUNG FROM SCHOOLS OF CRIME': Transforming the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents, 1885-1925
- PART IV: THE SCHOOL MUST BE THE AGENT': Using the New Education to Make the New Society
- PART V: CHILDREN IN ENGLISH-CANADIAN SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Bibliographic Note
- pp. 315-322
Additional Information
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2000