Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future.Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.>

About the author

Melanie Tebbutt is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Tebbutt, Tebbutt Melanie
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780230243101
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24310-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Social History in Perspective; Social History in Perspective
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Age groups: adolescents, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History