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Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony

Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895

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  1. S. E. Duff

    1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)

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This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 1-21

  3. A Changing Church: Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 22-43

  4. Changing Childhoods: Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 44-64

  5. Raising Children for Christ: Child-Rearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 65-87

  6. The Crying Need: Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 88-111

  7. Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children Relief Act

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 112-137

  8. Conclusion

    • S. E. Duff
    Pages 138-144

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 145-206
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    S. E. Duff

About the author

SE Duff is Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is on histories of childhood, sexuality, and medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Funded by a prestigious Research Career Advancement Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, her current project investigates histories of sex education in twentieth-century South Africa.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony

  • Book Subtitle: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895

  • Authors: S. E. Duff

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380944

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38093-7Published: 05 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47950-4Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38094-4Published: 26 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6532

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 206

  • Topics: Social History, African History, Modern History, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism

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