Juvenile Nation: Youth, Emotions and the Making of the Modern British Citizen, 1880-1914

In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight. Yet by the end of 1915, the British government realized that conscription would be required. Why did so many enlist, and conversely, why so few? Focusing on analyses of widely felt emotions related to moral and domestic duty, Juvenile Nation broaches these questions in new ways.

Juvenile Nation examines how religious and secular youth groups, the juvenile periodical press, and a burgeoning new group of child psy...