Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958 author.
Title: The play world : toys, texts, and the transatlantic German childhood / Patricia Anne Simpson.
Other titles: Max Kade German-American Research Institute series.
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] | Series: The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: Examines German theories and practices of play, parenting, and pedagogy from 1631 to 1912. Explores the role of the domestic sphere and home economies in establishing transatlantic networks that influenced the emergence of gender, class, race, and religious identities for Germans beyond EuropeProvided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020027018 | ISBN 9780271086996 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: PlayGermanyHistory. | PlayUnited StatesHistory. | Play (Philosophy)History. | ToysGermanyHistory. | ToysUnited StatesHistory.
Classification: LCC HQ782.S56 2020 | DDC 306.4/810943dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027018
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
1 / The Protestant Play Ethic
2 / Professional Parenting: Enlightened Play
3 / Revolutions in Play
4 / Colonizing Childhoods: The African Imaginary
5 / Ethnographic Play and the American Imaginary
6 / The Home and the Nation
7 / Empire of Toys
Conclusion: A Very Brilliant House
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. Johann Zoffany, John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and His Family, ca. 1766
2. Probieren geht ber Studieren, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1889)
3. Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1889)
4. Anna Kferlin, Kinderhaus, Nuremberg, 1631
5. Frontispiece from Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf, Kinder-Lieder (New York: Amerikanische Traktat-Gesellschaft, 1823)
6. Visitation of the Magi, from Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf, Kinder-Lieder (New York: Amerikanische Traktat-Gesellschaft, 1823)
7. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Die Wochenstube, ca. 1770
8. Title page from Oekonomisches Handbuch fr Frauenzimmer, vol. 2, 4th ed. (Stuttgart: Steinkopf, 1826)
9. Hessian figurines, Staffordshire, ca. 1820
10. Guillotine, from Beschreibung der Hinrichtung des Knigs von Frankreich Ludwig XVI, ca. 1793
11. Carved bone guillotine scene, 1815, from The Clive L. Lloyd collection
12. Guillotine, ca. 1793, from Karl Grber, Childrens Toys of Bygone Days: A History of Playthings of All Peoples from Prehistoric Times to the XIXth Century (London: B. T. Blatsford, 1928), pl. 153
13. Emigrant jouant au yoyo, ca. 1792
14. Belle Adeline faisant aller son Emigran, ca. 1792
15. Johann Conrad Seekatz, Die zwlf Monatsbilder: Januar, ca. 175963
16. Catalog von E. Steiger in New York (New York: E. Steiger & Company, 1883)
17. Cover illustration from Ein Kongo-Neger (Stuttgart: Verlag von Rob. Bardtenschlager ca. 1900)
18. Gemini, from Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau Verlag, 1889)
19. Cancer, from Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau Verlag, 1889)
20. Leo, from Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau Verlag, 1889)
21. Scorpio, from Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau Verlag, 1889)
22. Libra, from Auerbachs Deutscher Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1889 (Leipzig: Fernau Verlag, 1889)
23. The nutcracker, from Knecht Ruprecht in Kamerun, attributed to A. Bahr, Mnchener Bilderbogen, vol. 2, 2. Auflage (Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1892)
24. The sacrificial doll, from Knecht Ruprecht in Kamerun, attributed to A. Bahr, Mnchener Bilderbogen, vol. 2, 2. Auflage (Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1892)
25. Max Loose, illustration of Caschumka and Anita for Die kleine Urwlderin, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalendar auf das Jahr 1902 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1902)
26. Max Loose, illustration of Anita and the monkey for Die kleine Urwlderin, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1902 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1902)
27. J. H. Pehling toy store advertisement, from Deutscher Pionier am Ro de la Plata, newspaper, 30 November 1879, no. 143, 2 Jahrgang, S. 2
28. Fritz Koch-Gotha, illustration of the three chiefs for Eine Indianergeschichte, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1904 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1904)
29. Fritz Koch-Gotha, illustration of the defeated chiefs for Eine Indianergeschichte, from Auerbachs Kinder-Kalender auf das Jahr 1904 (Leipzig: Fernau, 1904)
30. Fritz von Uhde, Die Kinderstube, 1889
31. Unterricht in Schule und Haus, from E. Steiger in New York, June 1883
32. The First Gift, from Catalogue of Steigers Kindergarten Material, June 1883
33. The Third Gift, from Catalogue of Steigers Kindergarten Material, June 1883
34. The Fourth Gift, from Catalogue of Steigers Kindergarten Material, June 1883
35. For Boys and Girls, For Girls and Boys, from Catalogue of Steigers Kindergarten Material