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Author Downs, Laura Lee, 1955-

Title Childhood in the promised land [electronic resource] : working-class movements and the colonies de vacances in France, 1880-1960 / Laura Lee Downs.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 411 p. : ill., maps.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-402) and index.
Contents 1 Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: The Origins of the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1881-1914 -- 2 Toward a Pedagogy of Child Leisure: The Politics of Catholic Defense, 1882-1914 -- 3 Family Placement in a Socialist Mode: The Foundation of the Colonie Municipale of Suresnes -- 4 Inside the Nievre Colonie, 1923-1939 -- 5 Les Lendemains Qui Chantent: Social Movements and Pedagogical Innovation in the Colonies de Vacances during the Popular Front -- 6 Municipal Communism and the Politics of Childhood: Ivry-sur-Seine, 1925-1960.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Vacation schools -- France -- History.
Poor children -- Education -- France -- History.
City children -- Education -- France -- History.
Children -- France -- Social conditions.
Labor movement -- France -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822383963
0822383969
082232928X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822329282 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822329441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822329442 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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