Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England

Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past.

List of contents

Introduction
Section One: Childhood
1. Cultivating Childhood
2. New Generations of Pedagogues
Section Two: Youth
3. A 'Modern' Apprenticeship
4. The Hubris of Youth
Section Three: Adulthood
5. Fashioning Distinctions
6. Political Generations
Conclusion

About the author

BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Social History at Durham University and co-edited (with Adrian Green) Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell Press, 2018).

Summary

Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Crosbie, Barbara (Author) Crosbie
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781783275069
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-506-9
• No. of pages: 289
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management