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

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children
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
	2 Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long Eighteenth Century
	3 The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France
	4 Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity
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
	6 The Unexpected Victory of Character-Puppen: Dolls, Aesthetics, and Gender in Imperial Germany
	7 Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play, and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy
	8 Simply Child’s Play? Toys, Ideology, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968
	9 Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House
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
	11 Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture through Child-Made Objects
	12 Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890–1918
	13 Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys
	14 The “Appropriate” Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910s–1960s
Index