Turnen around the world / edited by Annette R. Hofmann and Gerald Gems.
| Other author | Hofmann, Annette R. |
| Other author | Gems, Gerald R. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington, [2024] |
| Description | vi, 305 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Sport, identity, and culture |
| Contents | Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) : an introduction to his life and work / Josef Ulkotte -- German Turners in the Revolution of 1848-49 and its aftermath / Michael Krüger -- The "march into the Third Reich" and the temporary end of the free Turner movement / Michael Krüger -- Women in the German Turner movement : beginnings, developments and changes / Gertrud Pfister and Annette R. Hofmann -- The Turner movement in Tyrol (Austria) until 1919 / Karl Graf -- Karl Völker : the Swiss "Turnfather" and the founding of the London Turnverein / Michael Krüger -- 175 Years of the American Turners : an overview / Annette R. Hofmann -- 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 -- Turner ascendency in Rochester, NY through song, spirit, and sport in the late 19th century / Alec S. Hurley -- The German Turners and the taming of radicalism in Chicago / Gerald Gems -- German-Brazilian Turner societies in Brazil's south (1858-1938) / Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Lothar Wieser -- German-Canadian Turnvereins : origin and evolution, 1855-1875 / Wendy Gray -- The Turner movement in Australia : a historiographical assessment / Rob Hess -- Influences of German Turnen in Japan / Toshi Ichiba -- Turnen in the German colony of Southwest Africa / Annette R. Hofmann. |
| Abstract | "This book represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to assess the worldwide scope, effects, and the residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023041935 |
| ISBN | 9781666950489 cloth |
| ISBN | epub |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |