This is the first book to trace the history of childhood and youth in nineteenth-century South Africa. This book examines how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation in the late nineteenth century. Specifically, it considers how the Dutch Reformed Church - the only organisation to evince any sustained interest in colonial childhood - attempted to mould, particularly, white childhoods. The book then traces the colonial state's increasing interest in the education and welfare of white children from the 1870s onwards, positioning this concern within a wider context of debates...
This is the first book to trace the history of childhood and youth in nineteenth-century South Africa. This book examines how childhoods changed durin...
