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From the Salon to the Schoolroom
How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman. Rebecca Rogers explores the variety of schools--religious and lay--that existed for girls and paints portraits of the women who ran them and the girls who attended them. Drawing upon a wide array of public and private sources--school programs, prescriptive literature, inspection reports, diaries, and letters--she reveals the complexity of the female educational experience as the schoolroom gradually replaced...
New Profession, Old Order
New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted.
Musical Biography
Musical biography has rarely been an object of theoretical and methodological reflection. Our present-day perception of the lives of prominent composers and performers of the past has been largely formed by cultural and political assumptions of nineteenth-century biographers and their twentieth-century followers. While older biographies are being scrutinized for veracity and 'updated' with new evidence, their historiographical premisses and narrative techniques remain largely unchallenged. The epistemological upheavals in the humanities since the 1960s have generated a body of theoretical thought that has undermined many of the assumptions of traditional biography. Consequently, many of thes...
Learning Democracy
Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little atten...
German History, 1770-1866
Now available in paperback, this is a uniquely authoritative study of Germany from the mid-18th century to the formation of the Bismarckian Reich.
Gründungsprozess von allgemeinbildenden Privatschulen
Diese qualitative Fallstudie untersucht aus der Sicht von Gründerinnen und Gründern den vielerorts wahrgenommenen Trend der steigenden Nachfrage nach allgemeinbildenden Privatschulen, insbesondere von Grundschulen. Der Blick richtet sich speziell auf den Gründungsprozess von sechs Initiativen und untersucht diese vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des Sozialunternehmertums. Dabei wird jenseits der Frage der Trägerschaft analysiert, wie diese Schulen gegründet werden, welche Motive zutage treten, ob hierbei pädagogische Innovation deutlich wird, welche Ressourcen benötigt werden und welche Hindernisse die Akteure auf dem Weg zum Schulstart und in den ersten Schuljahren zu bewältigen haben. Es ist eine Entdeckungsreise in die Welt einer bislang kaum erforschten Form des bürgerschaftlichen Engagements, welches als Potential rekonstruiert werden konnte, das Bildungssystem von morgen selbstbestimmt und „von den Wurzeln aus“ zu erneuern und mitgestalten zu können.
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both the public and domestic spheres. Essays consider the social, political, biblical, and theological factors that resulted in a multinational raising of awareness and emancipation for women in the nineteenth century and the strengthening of their international networks. The contributors include Angela Berlis, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ute Gerhard, Christiana de Groot, Arnfriður Guðmundsdóttir, Izaak J. de Hulster, Elisabeth Joris, Christine Lienemann-Perrin, Amanda Russell-Jones, Claudia Setzer, Aud V. Tønnessen, Adriana Valerio, and Royce M. Victor.
