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

Front Matter....Pages i-x
General Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-19
Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School....Pages 21-45
Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870–1930....Pages 46-70
Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870–1930....Pages 71-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-94
From the ‘Zwergschule’ (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870–1930....Pages 95-116
‘Schools Are Society’s Salvation’: The State and Mass Education in France, 1870–1930....Pages 117-139
Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870–1945....Pages 140-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-175
‘To Become GOOD MEMBERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY and PATRIOTIC AMERICANS’: Mass Education in the United States, 1870–1930....Pages 177-201
Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870–1930: Progress and Tensions....Pages 202-223
The Role of Mass Education in Nation-Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870–1930....Pages 224-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-260
‘Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa’: Race, Class, and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony....Pages 261-282
India’s Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood....Pages 283-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-325