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[null,null,"Autore",null,"MacDonald Robert H. <1934->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Sons of the Empire : the frontier and the Boy Scout movement, 1890-1918 / / Robert H. MacDonald"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©1993"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-282-01170-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612011702"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4426-8009-1"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (284 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Heritage"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"369.43/09"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Boy Scouts - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Frontier and pioneer life"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Scheme to Save the Empire -- CHAPTER ONE. The Legion That Never Was 'Listed -- CHAPTER TWO. Buccaneers: The War Scouts -- CHAPTER THREE. The Wolf That Never Slept: A Scout at Mafeking -- CHAPTER FOUR. Zulu Warriors or 'Red Indian' Braves? The Frontier Spirit in Scouting for Boys -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Laws of the Jungle: Teaching Boy Scouts the Lessons of Good Citizenship -- CHAPTER SIX. Mrs Britannia's Youngest Line of Defence: Militarism and the Making of a National Symbol, 1908-1918 -- CONCLUSION. Scouting and Myth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index -- Picture Credits and Sources"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonalf explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain, their use by Baden-Powell, and their influence on the Boy Scout movement. In particular, he analyses the model of masculinity provided by the imperial frontier, the view that life in younger, far-flung parts of the empre was stronger, less degenerate than in Britain. The stereotypical adventurer - the frontiersman - provided an alternative ethic to British society. The best known example of it at the time was Baden-Powell himself, a war scout, the Hero of Mafeking in the South African war, and one of the first cult "]
[{"$nulls":4},"heroes to be created by the modern media.When Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, he used both the power of the frontier myth and his own legend as a hero to galvanize the movement. The glamour of war scouting was hard to resist, its adventures a seductive invitation to the frist recruits. But Baden-Powell had a serious educational program in mind: Boy Scouts were to be trained in good citizenship.MacDoanld docusments his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new insight into the Edwardian age."]