Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
by
Sharon Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and...