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Turnen around the World
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2023
Summary
Turnen 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.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-5048-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-5049-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
306
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852): An Introduction to His Life and Work No access
Chapter 2: German Turners in the Revolution of 1848–1849 and Its Aftermath No access
Chapter 3: The “March into the Third Reich” and the Temporary End of the Free Gymnastics Movement No access
Chapter 4: Women in the German Turner Movement: Beginnings, Developments, and Changes No access
Chapter 5: The Turner Movement in Tyrol (Austria) until 1919 No access
Chapter 6: Karl Völker: The Swiss “Turnfather” and the Founding of the London Turnverein No access
Chapter 7: 175 Years of American Turners: An Overview No access
Chapter 8: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: German-American Turners and Turnvereins in the Southern Confederacy of Civil War America, 1861–1865 No access
Chapter 9: Turner Ascendency in Rochester, NY, through Song, Spirit, and Sport in the Late Nineteenth Century No access
Chapter 10: The German Turners and the Taming of Radicalism in Chicago No access
Chapter 11: German-Brazilian Turner Societies in Brazil’s South (1858–1938) No access
Chapter 12: German-Canadian Turnvereins: Origin and Evolution 1855–1875 No access
Chapter 13: The Turner Movement in Australia: A Historiographical Assessment No access
Chapter 14: Traces of German Turnen in Japan No access
Chapter 15: Turnen in the German Colony of South West Africa No access
