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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parsons, Timothy, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, Ã2004.
Subjects:
Scouts and scouting > Great Britain > Colonies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > General.
British colonies
Colonies > Administration
Race relations
Kolonie
Pfadfinder
Scouting.
Koloniale periode.
Burgerrechten.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Race relations > History.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Administration.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Africa
Groḃritannien
GroÈbritannien.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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