Childhood by Design : Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children Megan Brandow-Faller -- Part 1: Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption, and Commodity Culture -- 1. Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys, and Learning to Shop in Eighteenth-Century Britain Serena Dyer -- 2. Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long Eighteenth Century Ariane Fennetaux -- 3. The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France Sarah A. Curtis -- 4. Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity Colin Fanning -- Part 2: Child's Play? Avant-Garde and Reform Toy Design -- 5. Cultivating Aesthetic Ways of Looking: Walter Crane, Flora's Feast , and the Possibilities of Children's Literature Andrea Korda -- 6. The Unexpected Victory of Character-Puppen : Dolls, Aesthetics, and Gender in Imperial Germany Bryan Ganaway -- 7. Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play, and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy Michelle Millar Fisher -- 8. Simply Child's Play? Toys, Ideology, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968 Cathleen M. Giustino -- 9. Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House Karen Stock and Katherine Wheeler -- Part 3: Toys, Play, and Design Culture as Instruments of Political and Ideological Indoctrination -- 10. Material Culture in Miniature: Nuremberg Kitchens as Inspirational Toys in the Long Nineteenth Century James E. Bryan -- 11. Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture through Child-Made Objects Lynette Townsend -- 12. Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890-1918 Jakob Zollmann.

13. Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys Marie Gasper-Hulvat -- 14. The "Appropriate" Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910s-1960s Valentina Boretti -- Index.

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