These six highly-illustrated volumes provide the first truly global, interdisciplinary history of youth covering the last 2,500 years. Leading scholars from around the world have leant their expertise to create an innovative resource for historians, and scholars and students of related fields. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The ...
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These six highly-illustrated volumes provide the first truly global, interdisciplinary history of youth covering the last 2,500 years. Leading scholars from around the world have leant their expertise to create an innovative resource for historians, and scholars and students of related fields. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Concepts of Youth; Spaces and Places; Education and Work; Leisure and Play; Emotions; Gender, Sexuality and the Body; Belief and Ideology; Authority and Agency; War and Conflict; and Towards a Global History. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (500BC-500AD); 2 - The Medieval Age (500-1450); 3 - The Renaissance (1450-1650); 4 - The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800); 5 - The Age of Empire (1800-1920); 6 - the Modern Age (1920-2000+). The page extent for the pack is 1728pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. Volume 6 is available open access under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Youth is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via ... Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via ... .
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