The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.
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CONTRIBUTORS: L. Brockliss, N. Sheldon
EAN: 9780230273504
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 632 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-02-21
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GENRE: EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Comparative, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Education, Central / national / federal government policies, Social and cultural history
ELLEN BERG Affiliate Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, USALAURENCE BROCKLISS Professor of Early Modern French History & Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, Magdalen College, Oxford University, UKGUNILLA BUDDE Senior Lecturer, University of Oldenburg, Germany JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHANET Professor of History, University of Paris (Sorbonne), FranceNAZAN CICEKFaculty of Political Science, University of Ankara, TurkeySARAH DUFF Researcher, Birkbeck College, London, UKBEN EKLOF Professor of History, University of Indiana, USACRISTINA SOARES DE GOUVEA University of Minas Gerais, BrazilHEATHER ELLIS Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyNITA KUMAR Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College, California, USADEIRDRE RAFTERY Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Dublin, IrelandMARTINA RELIHAN Researcher, University College Dublin, IrelandALESSANDRA FROTA SCHUELLER Rio de Janeiro State University, BrazilNICOLA SHELDON Academic Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London, UKSUSANNAH WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK
