Coming of age on the city streets in 19th-century America |
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| Authors: | R Teeter |
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| Affiliation: | University of North Texas, Denton 76203. |
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| Abstract: | Broken free of any semblance of family control or community restraints, thousands of American youth roamed entirely at will throughout the cities of 19th-century America and supported themselves alternately from the legitimate street trades and from outright thievery. The invention of modern adolescence was partially a response to this neglected condition of urban youth. |
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