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Author Baxter, Kent.

Title The modern age : turn-of-the-century American culture and the invention of adolescence / Kent Baxter.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 185 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
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.
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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 early-twentieth-century America. ℗¡ The idea of adolescence, argues Kent Baxter, came into being because it fulfilled specific historical and cultural needs: to define a quickly expanding segment of the population, and to express concerns associated with the movement into a new era. Adolescence & mdash;a term that had little currenc.
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Subject Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899 -- Fictional works.
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930 -- Fictional works.
Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930.
Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930.
Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Adolescence.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Teenagers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Teenagers.
Teenagers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Teenagers -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 19th century.
Teenagers -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Baxter, Kent. Modern age. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 9780817380748 0817380744 (DLC) 2008010013 (OCoLC)214063510
ISBN 9780817380748 (electronic book)
0817380744 (electronic book)
9780817316266 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0817316264 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0837356989
9780817356989