Our Frontier Is the World : : The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy / / Mischa Honeck.
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 fo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 20 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The White Boy’s Burden
- Chapter 1. Brothers Together
- Chapter 2. From Africa to Antarctica
- Chapter 3. A Junior League of Nations
- Chapter 4. A Brother to All?
- Chapter 5. Youth Marches
- Chapter 6. Are You a Crusader?
- Chapter 7. Innocents Abroad
- Epilogue: The Woes of Aging
- Appendix: Questionnaire
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index