Description: This thorough account of post-World War II British youth cultures combines history, theory, and debate. It examines the emergence of youth as a social category -- embodying the wider hopes and fears of British society in the decades after 1945. Youth in Britain contextualizes the changes in young people's cultural responses within the wider transformation of British social, economic, and political life. It considers the history of spectacular youth subcultures and often a well-rounded account of changing socio-economic trends affecting British youth since World War II. It examines the role played by the various images and notions of young people in political debate and cultural comment throughout the period.

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