Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony, 2015 Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series

This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony.

Contents 1. A Changing Church: Childhood, Youth, and Dutch Reformed Revivalism 2. Changing Childhoods: Making Middle-Class Childhood and Youth in the Nineteenth-Century Cape 3. Raising Children for Christ: Childrearing Manuals, Sunday Schools, and Leisure Time 4. The Crying Need: Dutch Reformed Responses to the Education Crisis of the 1870s 5. Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness, and the Destitute Children's Relief Act