Education in Britain 1750-1914

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Education in Britain 1750-1914

W.B. Stephens

(Social history in perspective)

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1998

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  • : us

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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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  • NCID
    BA40124498
  • ISBN
    • 033360511X
    • 0333605128
    • 0312216246
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 220 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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