Our frontier is the world : the Boy Scouts in the age of American ascendancy /
Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The ...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Series: | United States in the world.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the white boy's burden
- Brothers together : men, boys, and the rejuvenation of empire
- From Antarctica to Africa : expeditions to the global frontier
- A junior League of Nations : campfire diplomacy at the world jamborees
- A brother to all? : scouting and the problem of race
- Youth marches : depression, dictators, and war
- Are you a crusader? : raising cold warriors
- Innocents abroad : scouting across the U.S. military empire
- Epilogue : the woes of aging.