The period covered by this volume, c.1450-1650, traces histories of youth in various cultural contexts during a period when increased communication between many parts of the world helped to define and transform perceptions and experiences of youth. This volume recognizes that the globe cannot be homogenized into a single history of youth, while investing in comparative studies. It also explores the impact of increased inter-cultural transmission on that complex life-stage between childhood and adulthood which almost all societies in this period recognized in distinctive ways. Imperial expansion, migration (including slave trading), and religious change are carefully explored as part of the history of early modern youth. Truly global in scope, the chapters' case studies take the reader to Japan, south America and the Ottoman Empire as well as both Eastern and Western Europe. Each chapter examines one of the series' key themes in the history of youth through carefully chosen examples, always in a wider comparative context. Collectively, the chapters provide a broad-ranging and vivid picture of youthful lives across the world c.1450-1650, while the final chapter explores the path towards a global history of youth.

A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of youth from antiquity through to the 21st century.

This open access volume of "A Cultural History of Youth inThe Modern Age", explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day. With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout history using all six volumes, or can gain an in-depth understanding of an individual period. :A Cultural History of Youth" presents historians, scholars and students of related fields with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of youth from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, they each focus on a specific period; Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-ND 3.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.