Originally published: Teenage : the creation of youth culture, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: 1875-1904 -- Heaven and hell / Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy -- Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution -- Hooligans and Apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media -- "A sudden vision of heaven" / L. Frank Baum and the Dreamland of Oz -- The american century / G. Stanley Hall and adolescence -- 2: 1904-1913 -- Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts / Imperial British Youth -- High school freshmen and factory fodder / American adolescence and industry -- Wandervogel and Neo-Pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements -- Nickelodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy -- 3: 1912-1919 -- Invocation : the European generation gap -- Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old -- The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the great war -- Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe -- 4: 1919-1929 -- Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German bunde, and the woodcraft folk -- Sheiks and shebas : the American youth market -- The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture -- The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people -- 5: 1930-1939 -- The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler youth -- The children's army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the depression -- Biff boys and the red menace : the polarization of British youth -- Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism -- 6: 1939-1943 -- Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler youth at war and at home -- Reluctant conscripts and Socialist heroes : British youth at war -- Sub-Debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform -- German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe -- Zoot-suiters and victory girls : American unrest in 1943 -- 7: 1942-1945 -- The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth -- Helmuth Hubener, the white rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe -- The arrival of the teenager : the launch of seventeen -- Year zero : the teenager triumphant.