Our Frontier Is the World

Honeck, Mischa

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“…Honeck's book, Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendency demonstrates how the Boy Scouts-who interacted extensively with peers across the globe-both grew alongside and supported the United States' expanding global hegemony. Putting a boyish and playful face on America's Cold War exploits around the world cast the United States as innocent and its power as benevolent, Honeck (2018) contends.…”

Section: Youth Culture Leisure and Organizationsmentioning

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“…And the actions of conformist youth, recent scholarship suggests, were just as significant as those of their rebellious peers. Focusing on young people's conformity with official dictates, not simply their resistance, historians of Soviet and American youth alike are working to broaden the concept of agency (Tsipursky, 2016;Honeck, 2018; see also Miller, 2016). "The figure of the child has stood in as a symbolic proxy for the nation, incarnating its shared virtues, values, and aspirations, as well as its vulnerabilities and anxieties-and marking the boundary between those who do and do not belong to the community it represents," Anita Casavantes Bradford (2014) writes (p. 11).…”

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The nursery'sIronCurtain: Children, childhood, and the globalColdWar

Fieldston

2019

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This essay surveys recent literature on children, childhood, and the Cold War. Over the past decade or so, numerous studies have explored the complex ways in which children and young people both bolstered and challenged the Cold War order. In doing so, they have shed new light on the social and cultural dynamics of the Cold War, encouraged historians to recover formerly marginalized voices, and expanded our definition of politics to include arenas far removed from the formal halls of power. Moreover, looking at youth has revealed striking similarities between the two superpowers whose rivalry defined the latter half of the 20th century.

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The nursery'sIronCurtain: Children, childhood, and the globalColdWar

Fieldston

2019

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Methoden und Ergebnisse der historischen Kindheits- und Jugendforschung

Kössler

2022

Handbuch Kindheits- Und Jugendforschung

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Playing on Uncle Sam's Team: American Childhoods During World War I

Honeck¹

2018

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If World War I has interested historians of the United States considerably less than other major wars, it is also true that children rank among the most neglected actors in the literature that exists on the topic. This essay challenges this limited understanding of the roles children and adolescents played in this transformative period by highlighting their importance in three different realms. It shows how childhood emerged as a contested resource in prewar debates over militarist versus pacifist education; examines the affective power of images of children—American as well as foreign—in U.S. wartime propaganda; and maps various social arenas in which the young engaged with the war on their own account. While constructions of childhood and youth as universally valid physical and developmental categories gained greater currency in the early twentieth century, investigations of young people in wartime reveal how much the realities of childhood and youth differed according to gender, class, race, region, and age.

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Our Frontier Is the World

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The nursery'sIronCurtain: Children, childhood, and the globalColdWar

The nursery'sIronCurtain: Children, childhood, and the globalColdWar

Methoden und Ergebnisse der historischen Kindheits- und Jugendforschung

Playing on Uncle Sam's Team: American Childhoods During World War I

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