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Changing childhoods in the Cape Colony : Dutch Reformed Church evangelicalism and colonial childhood, 1860-1895 /

"This is the first book to trace the history of childhood and youth in nineteenth-century South Africa. This book examines how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation in the late nineteenth century. Specifically, it considers how the Dutch Reformed Church--the only organ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duff, S. E. (Sarah Emily), 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
Subjects:
Church work with children > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk > History > 19th century.
Children, White > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Youth, White > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Poor whites > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Evangelicalism > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Social aspects > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Social change > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Social aspects > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > History > 19th century.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > Social conditions > 19th century.
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.
HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY / Social History.
History.
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk.
1800 - 1899
Children, White.
Church work with children.
Evangelicalism.
Industrialization > Social aspects.
Nationalism > Social aspects.
Poor whites.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Youth, White.
South Africa > Cape of Good Hope.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A Changing Church : Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism
  • 2. Changing Childhoods : Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape
  • 3. Raising Children for Christ : Childrearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time
  • 4. The Crying Need : Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s
  • 5. Saving the Child to Save the Nation : Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children's Relief Act.