The World of Children

Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

Simone Lässig, Andreas Weiß (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-378-4 (ISBN)

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In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.

Simone Lässig, since 2006 Professor for Modern History at Braunschweig University, has been the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, since 2015. Prior to that, she was the director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Children, the Nation, and the World

Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß

PART I: OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 1. New Words and the New World: Language and the Transnational Legacy of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere

Kirsten Belgum

Chapter 2. Images of Land and Sea: Experiencing the World as Adventure through Theodor Dielitz’s Travel Anthologies for Young Readers, 1841–1862

Matthew O. Anderson

Chapter 3. World Knowledge in Textbooks for French Language Teaching in the Nineteenth Century in Germany

Regina Schleicher

Chapter 4. The World at War in German Textbooks: Knowledge of the World Conveyed in Representations of War

Andreas Weiß

Chapter 5. When Nippon Became Prussian: The German Image of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Textbooks

Maik Fiedler

PART II: LITERARY KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 6. Thrilling Hearts and Winning Minds: The Representation of Monarchy, Navy, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Adventure Fiction

Miriam Magdalena Schneider

Chapter 7. Knowing Others as Selves: German Children and American Indians

H. Glenn Penny

Chapter 8. “Don’t you take pity on your little brothers and sisters in China?” Missionary Literature for Children and the Distribution of Relational Knowledge in Imperial Germany

Katharina Stornig

PART III: KNOWLEDGE IN ENTERTAINMENT

Chapter 9. Around the World in a Jiffy: Humorous Treatments of Around-the-World Travel in German Children’s Books and Games

Emer O’Sullivan

Chapter 10. The Rise of the Trading Card: Collecting the World before World War I

Judith Blume

Chapter 11. A World Made for Exploration: Germans and Their Toys, 1890–1914

David Hamlin

Conclusion: Kaleidoscope and Lens: Re-envisioning the Past through the History of Knowledge

Simone Lässig

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in German History
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 25 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-83695-378-X / 183695378X
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-378-4 / 9781836953784
Zustand	Neuware