David M. Pomfret
Ashgate
Hardback
328
2004
As European society became more urbanised in the nineteenth century and new approaches to city life were developed educated observers began to articulate fears about the impact cities had on the young. This book offers a new approach to this impact and the wider history of young people in European cities. Comparing a broad age range in two different urban contexts Nottingham and Saint-Etienne it not only provides a close reading of local events to substantiate or critique generalisations commonly made about the urban young but also uses this material to generate wider insights into the relationship between cities and the rising generation in their national and European contexts.
Ashgate
Hardback
328
2004
As European society became more urbanised in the nineteenth century and new approaches to city life were developed educated observers began to articulate fears about the impact cities had on the young. This book offers a new approach to this impact and the wider history of young people in European cities. Comparing a broad age range in two different urban contexts Nottingham and Saint-Etienne it not only provides a close reading of local events to substantiate or critique generalisations commonly made about the urban young but also uses this material to generate wider insights into the relationship between cities and the rising generation in their national and European contexts.