Building Character In The American Boy: The Boy Scouts, Ymca, And Their Forerunners, 1870 1920 - Couverture souple

MacLeod, David

 
9780299094041: Building Character In The American Boy: The Boy Scouts, Ymca, And Their Forerunners, 1870 1920

Synopsis

Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood.

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À propos de l?auteur

David I. Macleod, professor of history at Central Michigan University, was involved with the Boy Scouts from ages eight through twenty. He is author of The Age of the Child: Children in American 1890-1920.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780299094003: Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, Ymca, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0299094006 ISBN 13 :  9780299094003
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
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