Съдържание:
  • Prologue
  • New approach to youth
  • Sex and drugs before rock 'n' roll
  • The phase of life recognized as 'Youth'
  • Rites of passage
  • Prodigal son
  • Youth culture
  • Holland
  • heart of the Republic
  • Masculinity
  • Before rock 'n' roll
  • 1:
  • The Generation of the 1620s and 1630s
  • Risk-taking behavior
  • Marriage
  • Amsterdam
  • a seventeenth-century boomtown
  • 2:
  • Appearance and Clothing in the 1620s and 1630s
  • Long hair
  • Cavaliers
  • Republic sans court culture
  • Silk ribbons and metalic accessories
  • Bright colors
  • Calculated slovenliness
  • Sumptuary rite of passage
  • Extravagant clothing and the Prodigal Son
  • 3:
  • Drinking Like a Man
  • Rite of passage
  • Follies of youth
  • Moral instruction
  • Alcohol and young men from the upper and middle classes
  • Honoring Bacchus
  • Male bonding: cross social and economic drinking
  • Alcohol and young men from the lower echelons
  • 4:
  • Violence
  • Violence
  • a rite of passage
  • Collective socialization process
  • Unequal partners
  • Urban socialization process
  • Violence and the lower ranks
  • Rebelling against authority
  • Violence and the upper and middle classes
  • Loco parentis
  • Armed young men
  • Student violence
  • a rite of passage
  • Shattering glass
  • Nations
  • Channelled violence
  • 5:
  • Sexuality and Courting
  • Sex education
  • Sexual maturity
  • Masturbation
  • Sodomy
  • Courting activities
  • Courting events
  • Courting space
  • Premarital chastity
  • Sexual deviance abroad
  • 6:
  • Drugs?
  • Tobacco and the young
  • Smoking
  • a burning debate
  • Medical discourse
  • Belladonna
  • 7:
  • Recreation before Rock 'n' Roll
  • Youth literature
  • War
  • Adventure
  • Love emblem books
  • Song culture in the Republic
  • Religious songbooks
  • Secular songbooks
  • Women and songbooks
  • Song culture produced by and for the young
  • Arcadian songbooks
  • Boat trips
  • Country rides
  • Merrymaking at the beach
  • Boundaries for the young
  • Epilogue
  • Masculine role models and a national identity?
  • The dark passenger of male role models.