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1 online resource (pages) |
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| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 century. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Teenagers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Teenagers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Teenagers -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 19th century.
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Teenagers -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780817316266 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0817316264 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0817380744 (electronic) |
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9780817356989 (paperback) |
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0817356983 (paperback) |
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9780817380748 (ebk) |
| Standard No. |
heb40238 hdl |
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