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Parsons Timothy <1962-> |
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Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa / / Timothy H. Parsons |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Scouts (Youth organization members) - Great Britain - Colonies |
Great Britain Colonies Africa Administration |
Great Britain Colonies Africa Race relations History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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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