Pricing the Priceless Child

Pricing the Priceless Child
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0691034591
ISBN-13 : 9780691034591
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pricing the Priceless Child by : Viviana A. Zelizer

Download or read book Pricing the Priceless Child written by Viviana A. Zelizer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary worth.


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