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A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
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A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
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This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth, The Modern Age, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day. With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout history using all six volumes, or can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual period.
A Cultural History of Youth presents historians, scholars and students of related fields with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of youth from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, they each focus on a specific period; Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age.
The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Table of Contents
1. Concepts of Youth, David Pomfret and Nicholas L. Syrett
2. Spaces and Places, Dylan Baun and Carla Pascoe Leahy
3. Education and Work, Abosede George
4. Leisure and Play, Sharon Brookshaw and Melanie Tebbutt
5. Emotions, Karen Vallgårda
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Ishita Pande
7. Belief and Ideology, Susan Whitney
8. Authority and Agency, Valeria Manzano
9. War and Conflict, Mischa Honeck and Aaron Moore
10.Towards a Global History, Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight
Product details
| Published | Nov 28 2024 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350033078 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 244 x 169 mm |
| Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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