Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 (Paperback)

Introduction xv
Part One 1875-1904
Heaven and Hell: Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy 3
Nationalists and Decadents: The European Counterrevolution 16
Hooligans and Apaches: Juvenile Delinquency and the Mass Media 33
"A Sudden Vision of Heaven": L. Frank Baum and the Dreamland of Oz 49
The American Century: G. Stanley Hall and Adolescence 63
Part Two 1904-1913
Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts: Imperial British Youth 77
High School Freshmen and Factory Fodder: American Adolescence and Industry 91
Wandervogel and Neo-Pagans: Europe's Back-to-Nature Movements 101
Nickelodeons and Animal Dances: The American Dream Economy 113
Part Three 1912-1919
Invocation: The European Generation Gap 131
Sacrifice: The War Dead and the Young Against the Old 140
The Class of 1902: Juvenile Delinquency and the Great War 157
Jazz Bands and Doughboys: American Youth Enters Europe 169
Part Four 1919-1929
Postwar Shocks: The Fascisti, the German Bunde, and the Woodcraft Folk 181
Sheiks and Shebas: The American Youth Market 197
The Cinderella Complex: The Problems of America's Mass Culture 217
The Pursuit of Pleasure: The Bright Young People 234
Part Five 1930-1939
The Soldiers of anIdea: The Hitler Youth 255
The Children's Army and the New Deal: American Adolescents in the Depression 276
Biff Boys and the Red Menace: The Polarization of British Youth 295
Jitterbugs and Ickies: American Swing and Youth Consumerism 315
Part Six 1939-1943
Conquerors and Overlords: The Hitler Youth at War and at Home 335
Reluctant Conscripts and Socialist Heroes: British Youth at War 345
Sub-Debs and GIs: American Adolescents in School and in Uniform 360
German Swing Kids and French Zazous: Swing in Nazi Europe 375
Zoot-Suiters and Victory Girls: American Unrest in 1943 391
Part Seven 1942-1945
The Peaceful Invaders: American Soldiers and British Youth 411
Helmuth Hubener, the White Rose, and Anne Frank: Resistance in Nazi Europe 422
The Arrival of the Teenager: The Launch of Seventeen 441
Year Zero: The Teenager Triumphant 454
Acknowledgments 467
Notes 469
Index 525
Illustration Credits 551