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This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth, The Modern Age, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day. With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers 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 world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout history using all six volumes, or can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual period. A Cultural History of Youth presents historians, scholars and students of related fields with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of youth from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, they each focus on a specific period; Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Simon Sleight is Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914 and co-editor, with Shirleene Robinson, of Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World. He is also the Co-Founding Director of the Children's History Society. Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

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