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1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Rutgers series in childhood studies
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Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index. |
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"Youth must have its fling" : the beginnings of modern adolescence -- Picturing labor : Lewis W. Hine, the child labor movement, and the meanings of adolescent work -- "Irreverence and the American spirit" : immigrant parents, American adolescents, and the invention of the generation gap -- "Youth demands amusement" : dancing, dance halls, and the exercise of adolescent freedom -- "Youth is always turbulent" : reinterpretations of adolescence from Bohemia to Samoa. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"--A stereotypical complaint against American teens-actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -r. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children of immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Children of immigrants. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Conflict of generations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Conflict of generations. |
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Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Adolescence. |
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Geschichte 1900-2000 |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Chinn, Sarah E. Inventing modern adolescence. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813543093 0813543096 (DLC) 2007044898 (OCoLC)180576192 |
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9780813545950 (electronic book) |
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0813545951 (electronic book) |
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0813543096 (Cloth) |
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081354310X (Paper) |
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9780813543093 |
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9780813543109 (paperback) |
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