Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920Univ of Wisconsin Press, 30. 9. 2004 - Počet stran: 404 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. Back in print; First paperback edition. |
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Adult Ambitions and Concerns | 29 |
Temperance Orders | 83 |
An Ideology | 97 |
The Attempted Professionalization of YMCA Boys Work | 117 |
The Invention of Boy Scouting | 130 |
The Organization and Expansion of the Boy Scouts | 146 |
Creation and Defense | 171 |
Winning Institutional Support and Volunteer Leaders | 188 |
Recruiting a Fine Lot of Lads | 212 |
An Organized Setting for the New Boyhood | 233 |
Adult Instruction and Boys Responses | 248 |
Group Experience Membership Turnover | 268 |
Conclusion and Epilogue | 291 |
Notes | 309 |
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