Author: Boy Scouts of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Official Report of the National Training Conference of Scout Executives of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Official Report of the ... National Training Conference of Professional Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America. National Training Conference of Professional Scouters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Official Report of the ... National Training Conference of Professional Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America. National Training Conference of Professional Scouters
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Our Frontier Is the World
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America’s complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad. Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting’s global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America’s complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad. Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting’s global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Scouting
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.
To Do My Best
Author: Edward L. Rowan
Publisher: PublishingWorks
ISBN: 9780974647913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
James E. West and the history of the Boy Scouts of America.
Publisher: PublishingWorks
ISBN: 9780974647913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
James E. West and the history of the Boy Scouts of America.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Benjamin René Jordan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.