Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
by Jon Savage
A cultural history tracing the emergence of youth culture from the late nineteenth century through the end of the Second World War.
About This Book
Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 examines how young people began to form distinct cultural identities in the decades before the modern teenager was recognized.
The book draws on historical sources to explore changing attitudes toward adolescence, leisure, and consumption during this period.
It situates the rise of youth culture within broader social and economic transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Readers gain insight into the roots of later youth movements and the evolving relationship between young people and society.
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