Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus

by Neil Sutherland

In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers, believing that it was possible to free Canadian society from many of the problems of humanity, committed itself to a program of social improvements based on the more effective upbringing of all children. This commitment involved changing people's definition of children: they are no longer seen as beings inherently sinful who could be shaped into adults by discipline and hard work, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802063454
• ISBN13: 9780802063458
• Release Date: December 1976
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"