A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

About the Author Simon Sleight is Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914 and co-editor, with Shirleene Robinson, of Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World. He is also the Co-Founding Director of the Children's History Society.Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.