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

MacLeod, David I.

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

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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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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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ISBN 10:  0299094006 ISBN 13:  9780299094003
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
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