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.>

Sommario

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1. Working and Educating
2. Troublemaking and Imposing Order
3. Organised and Unorganised Youth
4. Policing Sexual Behaviour
5. Leisure and Consumption
6. New Youth Identities
7. Youth Transforming
Bibliography.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adopting a chronological approach to a number of key themes and debates, Melanie Tebbutt compares and contrasts representations and lived experiences while emphasising diversity and the need to recognise regional differences.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Melanie Tebbutt, Tebbutt Melanie
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780230243101
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24310-1
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Social History in Perspective; Social History in Perspective
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Condotta di vita, auto-realizzazione; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; 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