Description
Book SynopsisThese 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
