Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Transnationality of Youth

   1. The Transnationality of Youth

      • Richard Ivan Jobs, David M. Pomfret

      Pages 1-19

3. Activities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Youth and Rural Modernity in Japan, 1900s–20s

      • Sayaka Chatani

      Pages 23-44

   3. Boy Scouts under the Aztec Sun: Mexican Youth and the Transnational Construction of Identity, 1917–40

      • Elena Jackson Albarrán

      Pages 45-69

   4. ‘These Heroic Days’: Marxist Internationalism, Masculinity, and Young British Scientists, 1930s–40s

      • Heather Ellis

      Pages 70-91

   5. ‘A Malayan Girlhood on Parade’: Colonial Femininities, Transnational Mobilities, and the Girl Guide Movement in British Malaya

      • Jialin Christina Wu

      Pages 92-112

4. Mobilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. ‘Colonial Circulations’: Vietnamese Youth, Travel, and Empire, 1919–40

      • David M. Pomfret

      Pages 115-143

   3. Youth Mobility and the Making of Europe, 1945–60

      • Richard Ivan Jobs

      Pages 144-166

   4. On the Revolutionary Road: Youth, Displacements, and Politics in the ‘Long’ Latin American Sixties

      • Valeria Manzano

      Pages 167-187

   5. Movement Youth in a Global Sixties Hub: The Everyday Lives of Transnational Activists in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam

      • Andrew Ivaska

      Pages 188-210

5. Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. ‘Belonging to Many Homes’: Argentine Sephardi Youth in Buenos Aires and Israel, 1956–76

      • Adriana M. Brodsky

      Pages 213-235

   3. Swinging across the Iron Curtain and Moscow’s Summer of Love: How Western Youth Culture Went East

      • Juliane Fürst

      Pages 236-259

   4. Deng’s Children: Chinese ‘Youth’ and the 1989 Movement

      • Fabio Lanza

      Pages 260-282

   5. A Transnational Generation: Franco-Maghribi Youth Culture and Musical Politics in the Late Twentieth Century

      • Paul A. Silverstein

      Pages 283-305

6. Afterword

   1. Afterword

      • Richard Ivan Jobs, David M. Pomfret

      Pages 306-308

7. Back Matter

   Pages 309-333

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Through a variety of case studies, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century examines the emergence of youth and young people as a central historical force in the global history of the twentieth century.

• 1989
• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• empire
• Europe
• global history
• history
• Israel
• Japan
• revolution
• Vietnam

• Department of History, Pacific University, USA

  Richard Ivan Jobs

• Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R

  David M. Pomfret

Richard Ivan Jobs is Professor of Modern European History at Pacific University in Oregon, USA. His recent publications include Riding the New Wave: Youth and Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (2007), and a 2009 article in the American Historical Review, 'Youth Movements: Travel, Protest, and Europe in 1968', from his current book project Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Western Europe.

David M. Pomfret is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, China. His publications include Young People and the European City: Age Relations in Nottingham and Saint-Etienne (2004), and the collections Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene and Cultures of Planning in Asia (2013) and Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China: Communities and Cultural Production (2013).

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