{"product_id":"our-frontier-is-the-world-the-boy-scouts-in-the-age-of-american-ascendancy-hardcover","title":"Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMischa Honeck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMischa Honeck's \u003ci\u003eOur Frontier Is the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eOur Frontier Is the World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnocent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMischa Honeck is Senior Lecturer in History at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWar and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9.49 x 7.73 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760611590432,"sku":"9781501716188","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c2d844bd737c964c2889393f7a6c4a6.webp?v=1780184781","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/our-frontier-is-the-world-the-boy-scouts-in-the-age-of-american-ascendancy-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}