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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Baxter, Kent. Modern age. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008 (OCoLC)607917053 Online version: Baxter, Kent. Modern age. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008 (OCoLC)609053821 |
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| Named Person: | Horatio Alger; Edward Stratemeyer |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kent Baxter |
| ISBN: | 9780817316266 0817316264 9780817356989 0817356983 9780817380748 0817380744 |
| OCLC Number: | 214063510 |
| Description: | x, 185 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Kent Baxter. |
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Abstract:
"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 prevaded American society in the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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