The Damned and the Beautiful : American Youth in the 1920s.

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Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fass, Paula S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
Subjects:
1918-1932
Youth > United States > History.
Conflict of generations > United States.
Subculture.
Jeunesse > États-Unis > Histoire.
Conflit de générations > États-Unis.
Conflict of generations
Social conditions
Subculture
Youth
United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1918-1932.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Introduction: Youth in the 1920's; 1. The Children of Our Discontent; 2. The Family Redivivus: 1880-1930; 3. The World of Youth: The Peer Society; 4. Work and Play in the Peer Society; 5. Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culture; 6. Sexual Mores in the World of Youth; 7. Symbols of Liberation; 8. The Politics of Cultural Liberalism; Conclusion: Change and Stability; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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