
Turnen around the World
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Gerald Gems is past president of the North American Society for Sport History.
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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
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