During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its
citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived …

Prefaces can serve a variety of functions. We would like this one to speak in somewhat
personal terms about how we came up with the idea for and embarked on the creation of this …

Objet de toutes les attentions des instances internationales et humanitaires, l'enfant-soldat
est une figure incontournable dans la réflexion sur le phénomène guerrier actuel. À ce …

The elite young men who inhabited northern antebellum states—the New Brahmins—
developed their leadership class identity based on the term “character”: an idealized internal …

In 1865, Boston publishers Ticknor and Fields introduced Our Young Folks, a new children's
periodical, under the editorial guidance of Lucy Larcom (a well-known poet and abolitionist …

Contemporary American horror literature for children and young adults has two bold
messages for readers: adults are untrustworthy, unreliable and often dangerous; and the …

This chapter describes scholarship on international magazine publishing from 1990 to the
present. International magazine and journal periodical publishing has a long history: At the …

Europe was in turmoil during the first half of the twentieth century. The political stability that
emanated from nineteenth-century political liberalism began to break down, reaching …

Through this dissertation, I explore the ways that authors and editors use the form of
children's periodicals to discuss questions of childhood independence, the structure of the …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, popular images of African American children
became increasingly denigrating. However, John Newton Hyde, a white, prolific, mid …