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“Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
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African American boys --- African American men --- Services for --- Social conditions --- Afro-American boys --- Boys --- Afro-American men --- Men, African American --- Men
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The study identifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities-including effective programs, practices, and policies-that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color.
African American boys -- California -- Social conditions. --- African American men -- California -- Social conditions. --- Hispanic American boys -- California -- Social conditions. --- Hispanic American men -- California -- Social conditions. --- African American men --- African American boys --- Hispanic American men --- Hispanic American boys --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Men, Hispanic American --- Boys, Hispanic American --- Afro-American men --- Men, African American --- Afro-American boys --- African American men. --- Men --- Boys
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This is the first comprehensive look at the use of children in contemporary warfare. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: The use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in modern warfare, introduces the brutal reality of conflict, where children are sent off to fight in war-torn hotspots from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He explores the evolution of this phenomenon, how and why children are recruited, indoctrinated, trained, and converted to soldiers and then lays out the consequences for global security, with a special case study on terrorism. With this established, he lays out the responses that can end this horrible practice. What emerges is not only a compelling and clarifying read on the darker reality of modern warfare, but also a clear and urgent call for action.
Child soldiers --- World politics --- 855 oorlogsvoering --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- History
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855.5 Gewapende groeperingen --- 856.6 Vredesopbouw --- Child soldiers. --- World politics --- Child soldiers --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- Enfants soldats --- Enfants --- Protection, assistance, etc.
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Children --- Church work with children. --- Religious life --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Church work with boys --- Church work with girls --- Benevolent institutions --- Boys' towns --- Children's homes --- Children's villages --- Foster care, Institutional --- Homes (Institutions) --- Child care --- Child welfare --- Asylums --- Residential care
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Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.
Veteran reintegration --- Child soldiers --- Young men --- Men --- Young adults --- Boys --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Veterans --- Resocialization --- Social conditions --- Reintegration --- Liberia --- Politics and government --- child, children, childhood, childhood studies, Liberia, child soldiers, civil war, war, violence, war culture, gun, guns, bullets, fighting, armed conflict, missile, combat, ground troops, troops, military.
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Children and war --- Child soldiers --- Firearms --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Child & Youth Development --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- War and children --- War
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This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actor
Child soldiers --- Children and war. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Children and war --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Human rights --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- 180.1 Kinderrechten - internationaal --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- War and children --- War --- Child soldiers - Legal status, laws, etc
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