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Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1770-Present (Studies in Social Discontinuity)
Youth and History Tradition and Change in European Age Relations 1770Present - Studies in Social Discontinuity Author:John R. Gillis Student radicalism, teenage gangs, bohemianism, juvenile delinquency--are they the products only of the present, or do they have a past? According to John R. Gillis, youth cultures not only have a history but can be adequately understood when their past is taken into account. Using diverse and little-known sources from the eighteenth centu... more »ry to the present to explore the continuity as well as the changes in youth cultures, Professor Gillis has written what is now a standard work on youth.
youth makes its own history: such is the proposition--as well as the raison d'etre--of this volume. A detailed pioneering study of changing age relations in Western society from the beginnings of industrialization to the present, it sets the social history of the young, together with that of parents, employers, teachers, and other authority figures, in the context of epochal changes in the nature of the family, economy, school, and state.« less