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The transatlantic world of higher education [[electronic resource] ] : Americans at German universities, 1776-1914 / / Anja Werner



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Autore: Werner Anja Visualizza persona
Titolo: The transatlantic world of higher education [[electronic resource] ] : Americans at German universities, 1776-1914 / / Anja Werner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
Disciplina: 378.1/980943
Soggetto topico: American students - Germany - History
American students - Germany - Social life and customs
Americans - Education (Higher) - Germany - History
Universities and colleges - Germany - History
Education, Higher - United States - German influences
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[293]-316) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Sources and Quotations; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Movement and the History of Higher Education; Chapter 2 - US Student Numbers at Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, and Leipzig; Chapter 3 - The German University, Masculinity, and ""The Other""; Chapter 4 - Choosing a University: The Case of Leipzig; Chapter 5 - Transatlantic Academic Networking; Chapter 6 - Networking Activities of Leipzig's American Colony; Chapter 7 - Forging American Culture Abroad; Chapter 8 - Returning Home; Conclusion; Appendix 1 - Figures
Appendix 2 - List of Leipzig Professors of Interest to US StudentsAppendix 3 - List of Leipzig-American Dissertations; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The transatlantic world of higher education  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-85745-783-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453117103321
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Serie: European Studies in American History