School, State, and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France--A Quantitative Analysis

by Patrick J. Harrigan and Raymond Grew

School, State, and Society is a comprehensive analysis of French elementary education in the nineteenth century. It begins in the decades before the Guizot law of 1833, which made the establishment of public schools in every commune France's national policy, and continues ti 1906, just after Church and state were formally separated and Catholic schools officially abolished. Grew and Harrigan base their study on the vast amount of statistical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472100955
• ISBN13: 9780472100958
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"