The nurture of nature childhood, antimodernism, and Ontario summer camps, 1920-55

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  • Author: Wall, Sharon
    Contents:
    • Back to nature: escaping the city, ordering the wild
    • Socialism for the rich: class formation at the private camp
    • "All they need is air": building health, shaping class at the fresh air camp
    • Making modern childhood the natural way: the camp experiment with psychology, mental hygiene, and progressive education
    • Shaping true natures in nature: camping, gender, and sexuality
    • Totem poles, tepees, and token traditions: "playing Indian" at camp.
    Subject(s): History
    Original Publisher: Vancouver , UBC Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    0774816392

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    9780774816397

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    9780774816410

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History
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Vancouver

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