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Anja Werner - The Transatlantic World of Higher Education - 9780857457820 - V9780857457820
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The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

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Description for The Transatlantic World of Higher Education Hardcover. This detailed account of academic networking in European educational centers highlights the fruitfulness of travel in order to gain a clearer understanding of how to advance one's culture. Series: European Studies in American History. Num Pages: 348 pages, 23 figs & tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.

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.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
European Studies in American History
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857457820
SKU
V9780857457820
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Ref
99-15

About Anja Werner
Anja Werner studied at the University of Leipzig, the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris III, and Harvard University. From 2006 until 2009 she was affiliated with Vanderbilt University, where she coordinated the international Alexander von Humboldt in English project, whose annotated, new English translation of the Political Essay on the Island of Cuba was published in 2011. Her latest projects ... Read more

Reviews for The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
“Anja Werner’s excellent and well written study, complemented by appendices… and names and subject index, offers a central step toward an understanding of the German history of science and its growing international character throughout the 19th century. Of essential importance seems to be the author’s  interest in networks, which clearly goes beyond a classic history of a European contribution to ... Read more

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