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Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa /

Conceived by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization. Scouting''s global...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parsons, Timothy, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, Ã2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Scouting and schools as colonial institutions
  • Pathfinding in Southern Africa, 1908/45
  • Scouting and the school in East Africa, 1910/45
  • Scouting and independency in East Africa, 1946/64
  • Scouting and apartheid in Southern Africa, 1945/80
  • Independence and after
  • Appendix : the scout law and promise.