Teenagers by Brickell Chris PAPERBACK 9781869408688

Name: Teenagers by Brickell Chris PAPERBACK 9781869408688
Brand: Auckland University Press

Auckland University Press

TeenagersAuthor(s): Brickell Chris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Auckland University Press, New Zealand\nImprint: Auckland University Press\nISBN-13: 9781869408688, 978-1869408688\nSynopsis\nTeenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through the diaries and letters, photographs and drawings that teenagers left behind, we meet New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, the male mashers of the 1880s and the female flappers of the 1910s and 20s, schoolgirls and rocknrollers, larrikins and louts. By taking us inside the lives of young New Zealanders, the book illuminates from a new angle large-scale changes in our society: the rise and fall of domestic service, the impact of compulsory education, the movement of P?keh? and then M?ori from country to city, the rise of consumer culture and popular psychology. Teenagers shows us how young people m.