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However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycé es of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
List of contents
1. Images of Youth in the Modern Period Giovanni Romano 2. The Military Experience Sabrina Loriga 3. "Doing Youth" in the Village Daniel Fabre 4. Worker Youth: From the Workshop to the Factory Michelle Perrot 5. Young People in School: Middle and High School Students in France and Europe Jean-Claude Caron 6. Young Rebels and Revolutionaries, 1789-1917 Sergio Luzzatto 7. The Myth of Youth in Images: Italian Fascism Laura Malvano Translated by Keith Botsford 8. Soldiers of an Idea: Young People under the Third Reich Eric Michaud 9. Youth as a Metaphor for Social Change: Fascist Italy and America in the 1950s Luisa Passerini Notes Contributors Index
About the author
Giovanni Levi is Professor of Economic History at the University of Venice.Jean-Claude Schmitt is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Summary
Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
