The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780857457837
ISBN-13 : 0857457837
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Book Synopsis The Transatlantic World of Higher Education by : Anja Werner

Download or read book The Transatlantic World of Higher Education written by Anja Werner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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