Turnen Around the World

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.

List of contents

Introduction, Annette R. Hofmann and Gerald Gems
Part 1: Germany
Chapter 1: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) - An Introduction to his Life and Work, Josef Ulkotte
Chapter 2: German Turners in the Revolution of 1848-49 and its Aftermath, Michael Krüger
Chapter 3: The "March into the Third Reich" and the Temporary End of the Free Turner Movement, Michael Krüger
Chapter 4: Women in the German Turner Movement: Beginnings, Developments and Changes, Gertrud Pfister and Annette R. Hofmann
Part 2: Europe
Chapter 5: The Turner Movement in Tyrol (Austria) until 1919, Karl Graf
Chapter 6: Karl Völker: The Swiss "Turnfather" and the Founding of the London Turnverein, Michael Krüger
Part 3: The Americas: United States, Canada, and Brazil
Chapter 7: 175 Years of the American Turners: An Overview, Annette R. Hofmann
Chapter 8: 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
Chapter 9: Turner Ascendency in Rochester, NY through Song, Spirit, and Sport in the late 19th Century, Alec S. Hurley
Chapter 10: The German Turners and the Taming of Radicalism in Chicago, Gerald Gems
Chapter 11: German-Brazilian Turner Societies in Brazil¿s South (1858-1938), Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Lothar Wieser
Chapter 12: German-Canadian Turnvereins: Origin and Evolution 1855-1875, Wendy Gray
Part 4: Australia
Chapter 13: The Turner Movement in Australia: A Historiographical Assessment, Rob Hess
Part 5: Japan
Chapter 14: Influences of German Turnen in Japan, Toshi Ichiba
Part 6: Afrika
Chapter 15: Turnen in the German Colony of Southwest Africa, Annette R. Hofmann
Glossary
About the Authors

About the author

Annette R. Hofmann is professor of sports studies at the Ludwigsburg University of Education in Germany.
Gerald Gems is past president of the North American Society for Sport History.

Product details

• Authors: Annette R. Gems Hofmann
• Assisted by: Gerald Gems (Editor), Annette R. Hofmann (Editor), Hofmann Annette R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666950489
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-048-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Sport, Identity, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SPORTS & RECREATION / Gymnastics, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Gymnastics