{"product_id":"absolutism-and-the-eighteenth-century-origins-of-compulsory-schooling-in-prussia-and-austria-paperback-9780521528566","title":"Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Paperback) 9780521528566","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAbsolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1988 book is a study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames van Horn Melton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521528566, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 November 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.433 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"James Van Horn Melton has produced an important work on the educational policies of the absolute state and the social purposes behind them.\"   The Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCompulsory schooling is widely held to be a creation of modern industrial society. Yet already in the eighteenth century, Prussian and Austrian rulers attempted to introduce universal education in societies that were overwhelmingly rural and 'premodern'. Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740–86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740–80), this 1988 book examines the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in those states. It draws on a broad range of sources in showing how school reform was part of a broader campaign to strengthen relationships of authority and dependence. Local resistance as well as the contradictory aims of absolutist rule severely limited the success of school reform. But in their effort to promote literate culture on an unprecedented scale, reformers established pedagogical institutions and practices that would decisively shape public education not only in Central Europe, but throughout the West.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Administrative divisions of the Habsburg and Hohenzolln monarchies, 1780\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Cultural and Religious Forces: 1. Popular schooling in early modern Prussia and Austria\u003cbr\u003e 2. The rise of Pietist pedagogy\u003cbr\u003e 3. From image to word: cultural reform and the rise of literate culture in Theresian Austria\u003cbr\u003e 4. The catholic appropriation of Pietist pedagogy: Johann Ignaz Felbiger\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Social and Economic Forces: 5. Mastering the masterless: cameralism, rural industry, and popular education\u003cbr\u003e 6. From compulsory labor to compulsory schooling: education and the crisis of seigniorial authority\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Limits of Reform: 7. School reform in Frederickian Prussia\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Theresian school reform of 1774\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019784212760,"sku":"9780521528566","price":40.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521528566i_4fd86642-b848-4905-9770-abc5b57c2f4b.jpg?v=1691368970","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/absolutism-and-the-eighteenth-century-origins-of-compulsory-schooling-in-prussia-and-austria-paperback-9780521528566","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}