New open access book: Crisis for Whom? Critical global perspectives on childhood, care, and migration (UCL Press)
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Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, December 6, at noon CST, 6 p.m. GMT, for the final session of our virtual series, “Eat, Drink and Be Merry?
Who are child and youth migrants?
Majia Holmer Nadesan. Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 245 pp. $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-61321-8.
Reviewed by Carolyn Ogburn (UNC-TEACCH) Published on H-Disability (June, 2013) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Daniel Thomas Cook. The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 211 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-3268-8.
Reviewed by Patrick J. Ryan (Childhood and Social Institutions Program, King's University College at the University of Western Ontario) Published on H-Childhood (March, 2007)
Steven Mintz. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 445 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-01508-1; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-01998-0.
Reviewed by Hugh Cunningham (University of Kent, England) Published on H-Childhood (February, 2006)
Childhood in One Country