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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 and the reality on the ground.

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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; H.Ellis Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930; D.Raftery & M.Relihan PART II: CONTINENTAL EUROPE Introduction From the Zwergschule (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870-1930; G.Budde Schools are Society´s Salvation´: The State and Mass Education in France 1870-1930; J.F.Chanet Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870-1945; B.Eklof PART III: THE WIDER WORLD Introduction ´To Become Good Members of Civil Society and Patriotic Americans´: Mass Education in the United States, 1870-1930; E.Berg Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: Progress and Tensions; M.C.Soares de Gouvea & A.F. Schueller The Role of Mass Education in Nation Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930; N.Cicek PART VI: THE COLONIAL EMPIRES Introduction ´Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa´: Race, Class and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony; S. E. Duff India´s Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood; N.Kumar Index

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ELLEN BERG Affiliate Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, USA LAURENCE BROCKLISS Professor of Early Modern French History & Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood, Magdalen College, Oxford University, UK GUNILLA BUDDE Senior Lecturer, University of Oldenburg, Germany JEAN-FRAN€OIS CHANET Professor of History, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France NAZAN CICEKFaculty of Political Science, University of Ankara, Turkey SARAH DUFF Researcher, Birkbeck College, London, UK BEN EKLOF Professor of History, University of Indiana, USA CRISTINA SOARES DE GOUVEA University of Minas Gerais, Brazil HEATHER ELLIS Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany NITA KUMAR Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA DEIRDRE RAFTERY Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Dublin, Ireland MARTINA RELIHAN Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland ALESSANDRA FROTA SCHUELLER Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil NICOLA SHELDON Academic Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK SUSANNAH WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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