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

1. General Introduction
Laurence Brockliss, Nicola Sheldon

Part I. The British Isles

2. Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School
Susannah Wright

3. Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870–1930
Heather Ellis

4. Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870–1930
Deirdre Raftery, Martina Relihan

Part II. Continental Europe

5. From the ‘Zwergschule’ (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870–1930
Gunilla Budde

6. ‘Schools Are Society’s Salvation’: The State and Mass Education in France, 1870–1930
Jean-François Chanet

7. Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870–1945
Ben Eklof

Part III. The Wider World

8. ‘To Become GOOD MEMBERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY and PATRIOTIC AMERICANS’: Mass Education in the United States, 1870–1930
Ellen L. Berg

9. Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870–1930: Progress and Tensions
Maria Cristina Soares Gouvea, Alessandra Frota Schueller

10. The Role of Mass Education in Nation-Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870–1930
Nazan Cicek

Part IV. The Colonial Empires

11. ‘Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa’: Race, Class, and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony
S. E. Duff

12. India’s Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood
Nita Kumar

Keywords: History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Education, Social History, International and Comparative Education, Intellectual Studies