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A History of Young People in the West, Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage; Volume 2: Stormy Evolution to Modern Times. (book reviews)

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History: Review of New Books, March 22nd, 1998

Levi, Giovanni, and Jean-Claude Schmitt, eds. A History of Young People in the West, Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage; Volume 2: Stormy Evolution to Modern Times Trans. Camille Nash (volume 1) and Carol Volk (Volume 2) Cambridge: Harvard University Press 805 pp., $70.00, ISBN 0-674-40405-X Publication Date: May 1997

It seems that older people have always made the younger generation the scapegoats for every real or imagined ill in society. That is as true today as it was in the sixteenth century, when teachers complained that the youngsters sent to them were not Christians but...

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