{"product_id":"crucible-of-consent-james-e-block-9780674051942","title":"Crucible of Consent: American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eA democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible of Consent\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the explanation is to be found in the nursery and the schoolroom. Only in the receptive and less visible realms of childhood and youth could the necessary synthesis of self-direction and integrative social conduct--so contradictory in logic yet so functional in practice--be established without provoking reservation or resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the early postrevolutionary republic, two liberal child-rearing institutions--the family and schooling--took on a responsibility crucial to the growing nation: to produce the willing and seemingly self-initiated conformability on which the society's claim of freedom and demand for order depended. Developing the institutional mechanisms for generating early consent required the constant transformation of child-rearing theory and practice over the course of the nineteenth century. By exploring the systematic reframing of relations between generations that resulted, this book offers new insight into the consenting citizenry at the foundation of liberal society, the novel domestic and educational structures that made it possible, and the unprecedented role created for the young in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James E. Block\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674051947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674051942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012","brand":"James E. Block","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46024669626623,"sku":"9780674051942","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6505fa6e-417f-404c-8711-8588a087fe7d.jpg?v=1723128927","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crucible-of-consent-james-e-block-9780674051942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}