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The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914

The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914

Hardcover

Series: European Studies in American History, Book 4

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral EducationGerman History

ISBN10: 0857457829
ISBN13: 9780857457820
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2013
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig? In this book, the author combines a statistical approach with a biographical approach in order to reconstruct the history of these educational pilgrimages and to illustrate the interconnectedness of student migration with educational reforms on both sides of the Atlantic. This detailed account of academic networking in European educational centers highlights the importance of travel for academic and cultural transformations in nineteenth-century America.

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