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2 - Children

from Part I - Private Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2013

Jay Winter
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Yale University, Connecticut
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During the Great War, numerous bridges existed across national frontiers that linked children's experiences of the conflict. The significant revival of the historiography of childhood in wartime relies, without question, on an archival renewal. In every nation at war children became, in fact, the target of a war discourse that had been elaborated especially for them. Intended to explain and justify the war in the eyes of the younger generation, this initiative of both cultural and economic mobilisation appears as a transnational constant, a visible sign of the process of totalisation that affected all belligerent nations. Unavoidably caught up in the mobilisation of the civilian populations on the domestic front, children were nevertheless not systematic targets of the war's violence. Yet all children shared one form of essential experience: that of the impregnation of daily life by cultural mobilisation, especially at school, and by the violence of war.
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Print publication year: 2014

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  • Children
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.004
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  • Children
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.004
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  • Children
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.004
Available formats
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