The Modern Age: Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. New Kids on the Block: School Reform, the Juvenile Court, and Demographic Change at the Turn of the Century 21 2. G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Mead, and the Invention of Adolescence 44 3. Every Vigorous Race: Age and Indian Reform Movements 73 4. Playing Indian: The Rise and Fall of the Woodcraft Youth Movements 93 5. Teen Reading at the Turn of the Century (Part I): Horatio Alger 116 6. Teen Reading at the Turn of the Century (Part II): Edward Stratemeyer 136 Notes 155 Selected Bibliography 175 Index 179 ...