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Format: xvi, 374 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-5017-1618-8

Series Statement: The United States in the world

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-5017-1619-5

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-5017-1620-1

Language: English

Subjects: History , Education

Keywords: Orientalisierende Literatur ; Diskurs ; Osten ; Historische Darstellung

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URL: https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-27436?title=m-honeck-our-frontier-is-the-world

Author information: Honeck, Mischa, 1976-,

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Format: 1 online resource : , 20 b&w halftones

ISBN: 9781501716201

Series Statement: The United States in the World

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501716201

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501716201

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 9781501716201 (ebook) :

Series Statement: The United States in the world

Content: Since its founding more than 100 years ago, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been a fulcrum in debates over what constitutes proper boyhood and manhood. Although the BSA developed a strong national identity, these debates 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 to the countercultural movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2018.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781501716188

Language: English

URL: Cornell scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 1-5017-1620-4

Series Statement: The United States in the World

Content: 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.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2018. , 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 , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1618-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1619-0

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.1515/9781501716201