Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy

by Mischa Honeck

Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501716182
• ISBN13: 9781501716188
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher