Teenage
Subtitle: the prehistory of youth culture, 1875-1945
By: Jon Savage.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9780140254150
Subjects: Teenagers -- History -- 20th century.; Youth -- History -- 20th century.; Teenagers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.; Teenagers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.; Subculture -- History -- 20th century.; Social history -- 20th century.
Description: The untold story of the era of ferment, folly, experimentation, and rebellion, from England's Bright Young Things of the 1920s to Germany's Wandervogel, that allowed the "Teen Age" to separate itself from the rest of society forever.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: 1875-1904; title: Heaven and hell / Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy; title: Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution; title: Hooligans and Apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media; title: "A sudden vision of heaven" / L. Frank Baum and the Dreamland of Oz; title: The american century / G. Stanley Hall and adolescence; title: 2: 1904-1913; title: Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts / Imperial British Youth; title: High school freshmen and factory fodder / American adolescence and industry; title: Wandervogel and Neo-Pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements; title: Nickelodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy; title: 3: 1912-1919; title: Invocation : the European generation gap; title: Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old; title: The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the great war; title: Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe; title: 4: 1919-1929; title: Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German bunde, and the woodcraft folk; title: Sheiks and shebas : the American youth market; title: The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture; title: The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people; title: 5: 1930-1939; title: The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler youth; title: The children's army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the depression; title: Biff boys and the red menace : the polarization of British youth; title: Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism; title: 6: 1939-1943; title: Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler youth at war and at home; title: Reluctant conscripts and Socialist heroes : British youth at war; title: Sub-Debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform; title: German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe; title: Zoot-suiters and victory girls : American unrest in 1943; title: 7: 1942-1945; title: The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth; title: Helmuth Hubener, the white rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe; title: The arrival of the teenager : the launch of seventeen; title: Year zero : the teenager triumphant.