A History of Children's Play
A History of Children's Play

Author: Brian Sutton-Smith

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1512807796

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New Zealand children from 1840 to 1890 were subjected to an unusual combination of agrarian existence and an industrial social philosophy in the newly formed schools. When schools became more universal in the expanding industrial society, a new emphasis on the control of children developed, and from 1920 onward, adult supervision in the form of heavily organized sports and playgrounds encroached more and more on the untrammeled freedom of the rural environment. Returning to his home country of New Zealand, Brian Sutton-Smith documents the relationship between children's play and the actual process of history. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of informants from every province and school district of New Zealand, the author illuminates for the first time the various social, cultural, historical, and psychological context in which children's play occurs. He treats both formal and informal play, as well as the play of both boys and girls.

A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924
A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924

Author: Iain G. C. Hutchison

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2003-11-24

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1788854306

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In this way it provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London and Edinburgh, and, while these collections are indispensable for any interpretation of the period, they do tend to highlight two types of politics more than others - the political operations of the great landed estates and the 'high politics' of the front benchers - and they are not always fully representative of all parts of Scotland. This book therefore has paid attention to a wide variety of source material in private hands and in local record centres to redress the balance and provide a more balanced picture. This scholarly but very readable study will appeal to all those with an interest in the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Winnipeg
Winnipeg

Author: Alan F.J. Artibise

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1975-05-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0773580638

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This study provides a reasonably detailed social history of Winnipeg: a description—or reconstruction—of the evolvement of an urban area. It endeavours to identify and describe the events, personages, trends, and movements which have played a key role in the development of Winnipeg.