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Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America : citizenship, race, and the environment, 1910-1930
- Title
- Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America : citizenship, race, and the environment, 1910-1930 / Benjamin René Jordan.
- Author
- Jordan, Benjamin René
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this illuminating look at gender and scouting in the United States, Benjamin René Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Ax-men and typewriter-men: the BSA's full-orbed manhood -- The BSA's triumph: balancing traditional and modern manhood and authority -- Scout character: men's skills for corporate-industrial work and urban society -- Practical citizenship -- Nature, conservation, and modern manhood -- Mainstreaming white immigrants and the industrial working class in the BSA -- Rural manhood and lone scouting on the margins of a modernizing society -- The right sort of colored boy and man: African American scouting -- Epilogue: Scout manhood and citizenship in the Great Depression.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5676
- ISBN
- 9781469627656
- 1469627655
- 9781469627663 (canceled/invalid)
- 1469627663 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015033879
- OCLC
- 920966861
- Author
- Jordan, Benjamin René, author.
- Title
- Modern manhood and the Boy Scouts of America : citizenship, race, and the environment, 1910-1930 / Benjamin René Jordan.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5676