Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa [[electronic resource] /] / Timothy H. Parsons

• Autore: Parsons Timothy <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 369.43; 369.430967
• Soggetto topico: Scouts (Youth organization members) - Great Britain - Colonies
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies Africa Administration; Great Britain Colonies Africa Race relations History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. In Race, R
• Titolo autorizzato: Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa
• ISBN: 0-8214-4145-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454538203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II