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Book The National and World Jamborees in Pictures

Download or read book The National and World Jamborees in Pictures written by Boy Scouts of America and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Book The National and World Jamborees in Pictures

Download or read book The National and World Jamborees in Pictures written by Boy Scouts of America and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Frontier Is the World

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  • Author : Mischa Honeck
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 1501716190
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Our Frontier Is the World written by Mischa Honeck and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1938-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Release : 1936-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1936-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book Men of Schiff  A History of the Professional Scouters Who Built the Boy Scouts of America

Download or read book Men of Schiff A History of the Professional Scouters Who Built the Boy Scouts of America written by Winston Davis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the stories of the men who were paid professionals in the Boy Scouts of America in the first half of the Twentieth Century. They had personal struggles and sometimes conflict among themselves. These men worked tirelessly to create the largest Scouting organization in the world and one of the largest youth movements of all time. The book gives some insight into their stories and the impact of their contributions toward the country we live in today.

Book Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America

Download or read book Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America written by Boy Scouts of America and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Country for Old Age

Download or read book No Country for Old Age written by Mischa Honeck and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair. Mischa Honeck reveals how Americans of diverse backgrounds have sought not only to feel and look younger but also to breathe new life into their communities. Whether marching under the banners of science, public health, sexual liberation, physical fitness, nation-building, or world peace, these youth seekers have tended to paint their ventures in utopian colors. However, from the founders to today's Silicon Valley elites, anti-aging ventures have repeatedly magnified social inequalities, often projecting visions of society that have been unmistakably classist, racist, misogynist, and ageist. Today we are experiencing rejuvenation's Janus-faced legacy: As transhumanists rhapsodize about cyber-enhancing human bodies, ghastly pandemics, old-age poverty, and shrinking life expectancies are poised to become the new normal for many twenty-first-century Americans.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog

Download or read book The National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1962-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutes the quinquennial cumulation of the National union catalog . . . Motion pictures and filmstrips.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Release : 1937-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Release : 1969-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book On My Honor

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  • Author : Jay Mechling
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2004-05
  • ISBN : 9780226517056
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book On My Honor written by Jay Mechling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, On My Honor explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with members of the troop, Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men. He describes the campfire songs, initiation rites, games, and activities that are used to mold the Scouts into responsible adults. The themes of honor and character alternate in this new study as we witness troop leaders offering examples in structure, discipline, and guidance, and teaching scouts the difficult balance between freedom and self-control. What results is a probing look into the inner lives of boys in our culture and their rocky transition into manhood. On My Honor provides a provocative, sometimes shocking glimpse into the sexual awakening and moral development of young men coming to grips with their nascent desires, their innate aggressions, their inclination toward peer pressure and violence, and their social acculturation. On My Honor ultimately shows how the Boy Scouts of America continues to edify and mentor young men against the backdrop of controversies over freedom of religious expression, homosexuality, and the proposed inclusion of female members. While the organization's bureaucracy has taken an unyielding stance against gay men and atheists, real live Scouts are often more open to plurality than we might assume. In their embrace of tolerance, acceptance, and understanding, troop leaders at the local level have the power to shape boys into emotionally mature men.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Release : 1952-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1952-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book Boys  Life

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  • Release : 1937-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Book The Motion Picture and the Family

Download or read book The Motion Picture and the Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scouting

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  • Release : 1974-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.