Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, c.1870-1930

1. Front Matter

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2. General Introduction

   1. General Introduction

      • Laurence Brockliss, Nicola Sheldon

      Pages 1-12

3. The British Isles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-19

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   2. Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School

      • Susannah Wright

      Pages 21-45

   3. Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870–1930

      • Heather Ellis

      Pages 46-70

   4. Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870–1930

      • Deirdre Raftery, Martina Relihan

      Pages 71-88

4. Continental Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-94

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   2. From the ‘Zwergschule’ (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870–1930

      • Gunilla Budde

      Pages 95-116

   3. ‘Schools Are Society’s Salvation’: The State and Mass Education in France, 1870–1930

      • Jean-François Chanet

      Pages 117-139

   4. Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870–1945

      • Ben Eklof

      Pages 140-166

5. The Wider World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-175

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   2. ‘To Become GOOD MEMBERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY and PATRIOTIC AMERICANS’: Mass Education in the United States, 1870–1930

      • Ellen L. Berg

      Pages 177-201

   3. Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870–1930: Progress and Tensions

      • Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea, Alessandra Frota Schueller

      Pages 202-223

   4. The Role of Mass Education in Nation-Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870–1930

      • Nazan Cicek

      Pages 224-250

6. The Colonial Empires

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-260

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   2. ‘Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa’: Race, Class, and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony

      • S. E. Duff

      Pages 261-282

   3. India’s Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood

      • Nita Kumar

      Pages 283-304

7. Back Matter

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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.

• education
• Germany
• research
• society

• Magdalen College, Oxford, UK

  Laurence Brockliss

• Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

  Nicola Sheldon

ELLEN BERG Affiliate Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, USA LAURENCE BROCKLISS Professor of Early Modern French History & Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, Magdalen College, Oxford University, UK GUNILLA BUDDE Senior Lecturer, University of Oldenburg, Germany JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHANET Professor of History, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France NAZAN CICEKFaculty of Political Science, University of Ankara, Turkey SARAH DUFF Researcher, Birkbeck College, London, UK BEN EKLOF Professor of History, University of Indiana, USA CRISTINA SOARES DE GOUVEA University of Minas Gerais, Brazil HEATHER ELLIS Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany NITA KUMAR Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA DEIRDRE RAFTERY Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Dublin, Ireland MARTINA RELIHAN Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland ALESSANDRA FROTA SCHUELLER Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil NICOLA SHELDON Academic Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK SUSANNAH WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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