Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

Simon Sleight is Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914 and co-editor, with Shirleene Robinson, of Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World. He is also the Co-Founding Director of the Children's History Society.Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

• Introduction, Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight1. Concepts of Youth, David Pomfret and Nicholas L. Syrett2. Spaces and Places, Dylan Baun and Carla Pascoe Leahy3. Education and Work, Abosede George4. Leisure and Play, Sharon Brookshaw and Melanie Tebbutt5. Emotions, Karen Vallgårda6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Ishita Pande7. Belief and Ideology, Susan Whitney8. Authority and Agency, Valeria Manzano9. War and Conflict, Mischa Honeck and Aaron Moore10.Towards a Global History, Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight