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Conceived by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization.

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In effect, this study of the boy scout movement in Africa serves as an avenue of entry to a much broader consideration of the African experience under British colonial rule. The scholarship is not merely sound; it is downright formidable. This is a highly original, first-rate work of social history.
“Scouting, according to Parsons, could promote either empire loyalism or anti-colonial resistance, ambiguities that surface in his case studies.... A solid piece of history.” * International History Review *
“As Parsons shows, scouting was from the start as much an instrument of social protest as of social control.” * South African Historical Journal *

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/2004
      ISBN13: 9780821415962, 978-0821415962
      ISBN10: 0821415964
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Conceived by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization.

      Trade Review
      In effect, this study of the boy scout movement in Africa serves as an avenue of entry to a much broader consideration of the African experience under British colonial rule. The scholarship is not merely sound; it is downright formidable. This is a highly original, first-rate work of social history.
      “Scouting, according to Parsons, could promote either empire loyalism or anti-colonial resistance, ambiguities that surface in his case studies.... A solid piece of history.” * International History Review *
      “As Parsons shows, scouting was from the start as much an instrument of social protest as of social control.” * South African Historical Journal *

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