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

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Parsons, Timothy, 1962- [author.]

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9780821441459
0821441450
0821415956
9780821415955

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa.DDC classification:

369.43/0967/09171241 22

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HS3270.A35 P37 2004eb

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15.80

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index.

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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.

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