A History of Young People in the West, Volume 2

Stormy Evolution to Modern Times

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Edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt,

Translated by Carol Volk

Harvard University Press

Due/Published November 1999, 464 pages, paper

ISBN 0674404084

This two-volume history presents a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth. This is Volume Two.

"[A History of Young People has] the great merit of making the work of some notable Italian and French scholars accessible to an Anglophone public. They are well translated, preserving the ornateness of the originals... Collectively, the lasting impression these volumes leave is of the exploitation of innocence, and the control exerted by those in authority-church, state, or parents-over the lives of children growing up."--Rosamond McKitterick, New York Times Book Review