Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America

by Harvey J. Graff

Book Overview

We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674160673
• ISBN13: 9780674160675
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"