Author: Frank George Carpenter
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland ...
Author: Frank George Carpenter
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland
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Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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Country Life
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The World's Work
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Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Empire's Edge
Author: Preston Jones
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
New Country Life
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Pages : 760
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States of Childhood
Author: Jennifer S. Light
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.