The modern age : turn-of-the-century American culture and the invention of adolescence / Kent Baxter.
"The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in the early twentieth centur...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- New kids on the block : school reform, the juvenile court, and demographic change at the turn of the century
- G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Mead, and the invention of adolescence
- Every vigorous race : age and Indian reform movements
- Playing Indian : the rise and fall of the Woodcraft youth movements
- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part I) : Horatio Alger
- Teen reading at the turn of the century (part II) : Edward Stratemeyer.