Education in Britain 1750-1914
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Education in Britain 1750-1914
(Social history in perspective)
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1998
- : uk, hbk
- : uk, pbk
- : us
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Note
Bibliography: p. 182-201
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of conflict in society.
Table of Contents
Preface.- List of Tables.- Elementary Education to the 1860s.- School Attendance and Literacy: 1750 to the Later Nineteenth Century.- Secondary and Higher Education to the 1860s.- Education, Science and Industrialization, 1750s 1850s.- Elementary Education from the 1860s to 1914.- Secondary and Higher Education from the 1860s to 1914.- Science, Technology, Education and the Economy from the 1850s to 1914.- The Growth of a Literate Culture.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.
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