Toys and Time: Playthings and Parents’ Attitudes toward Change in Early 20th-Century America

Time & Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-24

  Cross, Gary ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; history; rites of passage; time; toys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221435     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X98007001001     Document Type: Article

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