|
Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
Our Frontier Is the World - The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R843
Discovery Miles 8 430
You Save: R147
(15%)
|
|
|
Our Frontier Is the World - The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy (Hardcover)
Series: The United States in the World
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
