{"product_id":"turnen-around-the-world-9781666950489","title":"Turnen around the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurnen around the World represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to detail and assess the worldwide scope, effects, and residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A male nationalistic movement based on gymnastics and other physical activities established in response to the Napoleonic wars became even more political in the German Revolution of 1848. Refugees, colonizers, and immigrants spread the political and cultural aspects of Turnen throughout the world thereafter, with varying results that still resonate today. In some cases, Turnen societies resisted assimilation and took an isolationist stance retaining their own culture and language. In others they gradually assimilated, adapting and adopting the norms, standards, and values of the host cultures while establishing educational and physical culture practices that endured. In still other areas a nominal, but peripheral effect influenced local physical practices. Within Germany, the Turners remain the most substantial physical culture association in the country with more than five million members, around 70 percent being females.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, Annette R. Hofmann and Gerald Gems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) - An Introduction to his Life and Work, Josef Ulkotte\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: German Turners in the Revolution of 1848-49 and its Aftermath, Michael Krüger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The \"March into the Third Reich\" and the Temporary End of the Free Turner Movement, Michael Krüger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Women in the German Turner Movement: Beginnings, Developments and Changes, Gertrud Pfister and Annette R. Hofmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Turner Movement in Tyrol (Austria) until 1919, Karl Graf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Karl Völker: The Swiss “Turnfather” and the Founding of the London Turnverein, Michael Krüger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: The Americas: United States, Canada, and Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: 175 Years of the American Turners: An Overview, Annette R. Hofmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Between a Rock and a Hard Place´: German-American Turners and Turnvereins in the Southern Confederacy of Civil War America, 1861-1865, Robert Knight Barney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Turner Ascendency in Rochester, NY through Song, Spirit, and Sport in the late 19th Century, Alec S. Hurley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: The German Turners and the Taming of Radicalism in Chicago, Gerald Gems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: German-Brazilian Turner Societies in Brazil´s South (1858-1938), Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Lothar Wieser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: German-Canadian Turnvereins: Origin and Evolution 1855-1875, Wendy Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: The Turner Movement in Australia: A Historiographical Assessment, Rob Hess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 5: Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Influences of German Turnen in Japan, Toshi Ichiba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 6: Afrika\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Turnen in the German Colony of Southwest Africa, Annette R. Hofmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042043953495,"sku":"9781666950489","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666950489.jpg?v=1750952768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/turnen-around-the-world-9781666950489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}