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

• Autore: Parsons Timothy <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map
• 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
• 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.
• 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.: 9910782626103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II