Turnen around the World

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.

• Introduction, Annette R. Hofmann and Gerald GemsPart 1: GermanyChapter 1: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) - An Introduction to his Life and Work, Josef UlkotteChapter 2: German Turners in the Revolution of 1848-49 and its Aftermath, Michael KrügerChapter 3: The "March into the Third Reich" and the Temporary End of the Free Turner Movement, Michael KrügerChapter 4: Women in the German Turner Movement: Beginnings, Developments and Changes, Gertrud Pfister and Annette R. HofmannPart 2: EuropeChapter 5: The Turner Movement in Tyrol (Austria) until 1919, Karl GrafChapter 6: Karl Völker: The Swiss “Turnfather” and the Founding of the London Turnverein, Michael KrügerPart 3: The Americas: United States, Canada, and BrazilChapter 7: 175 Years of the American Turners: An Overview, Annette R. HofmannChapter 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 BarneyChapter 9: Turner Ascendency in Rochester, NY through Song, Spirit, and Sport in the late 19th Century, Alec S. HurleyChapter 10: The German Turners and the Taming of Radicalism in Chicago, Gerald GemsChapter 11: German-Brazilian Turner Societies in Brazil´s South (1858-1938), Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Lothar WieserChapter 12: German-Canadian Turnvereins: Origin and Evolution 1855-1875, Wendy GrayPart 4: AustraliaChapter 13: The Turner Movement in Australia: A Historiographical Assessment, Rob HessPart 5: JapanChapter 14: Influences of German Turnen in Japan, Toshi IchibaPart 6: AfrikaChapter 15: Turnen in the German Colony of Southwest Africa, Annette R. HofmannGlossaryAbout the Authors