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Volume 1, Issue 2 (Spring 2008)


Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Editor

Introduction
Karen Sánchez-Eppler

Object Lesson

Fun with the Alphabet
Raffaella Cribiore

Essays: Schools, Books, and Power

For Richer, For Poorer?  Free Education in England, c.1380-1530
Nicholas Orme

Practicing for Print: The Hale Children’s Manuscript Libraries
Karen Sánchez-Eppler

Children as the Youthful Hope of an Old Empire: Race, Nationalism, and Elementary Education in China, 1895-1915
Limin Bai

Blood Ties and Tongue Ties: The Role of Children in Shifting the Boundaries of Namibia’s German-speaking Community
Jason Owens

Contemporary Children: Questions of Learning and Labor

Child Labor and Education For All: An Issue Paper
Lorenzo Guarcello, Scott Lyon, and Furio Camillo Rosati

Memories of Tomorrow: Children, Labor, and the Panacea of Formal Schooling
Sarada Balagopalan

Book Reviews

When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity—By O. M. Bakke
Alison G. Salvesen

A Tender Voyage:  Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China—By Ping-chen Hsiung
Valentina Boretti

Children in Colonial America—Edited by James Marten
Caroline Cox

Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven’s Working Class, 1870-1940—By Stephen Lassonde
Michael Zuckerman

The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950—By Cynthia Comacchio
Jonathan Anuik

The German Antifascist Classroom:  Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949—By Benita Blessing
Andrew Donson

Youth, Globalization, and the Law—Edited by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir
Michael Grossberg                       

Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences—By Laura M. Carpenter
Susan Ferentinos