Pt. 1: 1875-1904. Heaven and hell : Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy

Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution

Hooligans and apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media

"A sudden vision of heaven" : L. Frank Baum and the dreamland of Oz

The American century : G. Stanley Hall and Adolescence

Pt. 2: 1904-1913. Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts : Imperial British youth

High school freshmen and factory fodder : American adolescence and industry

Wandervogel and neo-pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements

Nickleodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy

Pt. 3: 1912-1919. Invocation : the European generation gap

Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old

The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the Great War

Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe

Pt. 4: 1919-1929. Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German Bunde, and the Woodcraft folk

Sheiks and shebas : the American youth market

The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture

The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people

Pt. 5: 1930-1939. The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler Youth

The Children's Army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the Depression

Biff boys and the Red Menace : the polarization of British youth

Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism

Pt. 6: 1939-1943. Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler Youth at war and at home

Reluctant conscripts and socialist heroes : British youth at war

Sub-debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform

German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe

Zoot-suiters and Victory Girls : American unrest in 1943

Pt. 7: 1942-1945. The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth

Helmuth Hübener, the White Rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe

The arrival of the teenager : the launch of Seventeen

Year zero : the teenager triumphant.