
Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1750–Present
John R. Gillis
Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1750–Present
John R. Gillis
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations 1770 - Present, Expanded Student Edition deals with the patterns of behavior and styles that characterizes the youth in a particular period of time. Chapters in the book discuss such topics as the description of youth in preindustrial Europe; the emergence of separate working class and middle class traditions of youth and the conflict between these traditions, as it was institutionalized in the academic and extracurricular cultures of the early twentieth century; and the youth tradition in the volatile 1950s and 1960s. Psychologists, sociologists, and historians will find the book insightful.
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- ISBN-13
- 9781483257785
- Genre
- Topics
- Youth and adolescenceEuropean social historyAge relations and class
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
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