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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Claire Perry. Young America: Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Beinecke Library in association with the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. 2006. Pp. x, 236. $50.00.
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| Claire Perry's thorough and informative book brings us back to the childhood of America. Reminding us that a young country sees itself in its young people, Perry shows us how nineteenth-century America pictured a wide range of children: male and female, white, black, Indian, truant, and studious. |
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