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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
Ã2004.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 spread was due to its success in attaching itself to institutions of authority. As a result, scouting has become embroiled in controversies in the civil rights struggle in the American South, in nationalist resistance movements in India, and in the contemporary American debate over gay rights. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821441459 0821441450 0821415956 9780821415955 |