Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century
Editors: Jobs, R., Pomfret, D. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Transnationality of Youth
Pages 1-19
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Youth and Rural Modernity in Japan, 1900s–20s
Pages 23-44
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Boy Scouts under the Aztec Sun: Mexican Youth and the Transnational Construction of Identity, 1917–40
Pages 45-69
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‘These Heroic Days’: Marxist Internationalism, Masculinity, and Young British Scientists, 1930s–40s
Pages 70-91
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‘A Malayan Girlhood on Parade’: Colonial Femininities, Transnational Mobilities, and the Girl Guide Movement in British Malaya
Pages 92-112
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century
- Editors
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- R. Jobs
- D. Pomfret
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-46990-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137469908
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-46989-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-69178-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 333
- Topics
