Children of the city
Subtitle: at work and at play
By: David Nasaw.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Children of immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies.; City children -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Case studies.
Description: It was the turn of the 20th century--a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. Author David Nasaw has recreated this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up there. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories, and unpublished--and until now unexamined--primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams.--From publisher description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [211]-234.
Includes index.