A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age / / Edited by Kristine Alexander, Simon Sleight.

• Superior document: The Cultural Histories Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Sleight, Simon,; Alexander, Kristine,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Histories Series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edited by Kristine Alexander, Simon Sleight.

This open access volume of "A Cultural History of Youth inThe 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.