Article: Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children.(Book review)

Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children. Edited by Paula S. Fass, Marta Gutman and Ning de Coninck-Smith (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi plus 346 pp. $24.95).

This exciting collection of essays, cutting-edge in research and wide in scope, opens up in new ways the relationship between modern childhood, material culture and uses of space. Multi-disciplinary in approach--there is a particularly welcome involvement of architectural historians--and handsomely illustrated, Designing Modern Childhoods is an indication of how much work has already been done, but, equally important, it will ...

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