
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...

Preface List of Contributors Note on Timelines and Glossaries General Introduction PART I: THE BRITISH ISLES Introduction Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School; S.Wright Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930;...