Contetns
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xvi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children 1
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 31
2 Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long Eighteenth Century Ariane Fennetaux 47
3 The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France Sarah A. Curtis 67
4 Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity Colin Fanning 89
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 113
6 The Unexpected Victory of Character-Puppen: Dolls, Aesthetics, and Gender in Imperial Germany Bryan Ganaway 133
7 Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play, and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy Michelle Millar Fisher 153
8 Simply Child's Play? Toys, Ideology, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968 Cathleen M. Giustino 173
9 Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House Karen Stock and Katherine Wheeler 193
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 215
11 Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture through Child-Made Objects Lynette Townsend
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12 Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890-1918 Jakob Zollmann 255
13 Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys Marie Gasper-Hulvat 273
14 The "Appropriate" Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910s-1960s Valentina Boretti 293
Index 316