School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling: Education Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 1. Introduction - The History of School Acts; Johannes Westberg, Lukas Boser and Ingrid Brühwiler.- Chapter 2. "Das Schulwesen aber ist und bleibet allezeit ein politicum:" The Felbiger General School Ordinance and School Reform in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy; Martin Viehhauser.- Chapter 3. Schooling and the administrative state: Explaining the lack of school acts in nineteenth-century Prussia; Marcelo Caruso and Daniel Töpper.- Chapter 4. E Pluribus Unum: One Swiss School system based on many Cantonal School Acts; Lukas Boser, Michèle Hofmann, Ingrid Brühwiler.- Chapter 5. Education in a Nation Divided: The Contribution of School Acts to the Development of Dutch Mass Schooling in the Long Nineteenth Century; Jeroen J.H Dekker, Hilda T.A. Amsing and Inge J.M. Wichgers.- Chapter 6. Good and righteous people and useful citizens of the state: The Danish 1814 school acts and the rise of mass schooling in Denmark; Christian Larsen.- Chapter 7. Citizens in their Right Place: Nation Building and Mass Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France; Sébastien-Akira Alix.- Chapter 8. School Acts and Elementary Education in Nineteenth Century Spain; Núria Mallorqui Ruscalleda.- Chapter 9. Basic schools in each and every parish: The school act of 1842 and the rise of mass schooling in Sweden; Johannes Westberg.- Chapter 10. A struggling nation since its founding? Liberal Italy and the cost of neglecting primary education; Gabriele Cappelli.- Chapter 11. From the top down? Legislation and public initiative in building a school system in Russia after the Great Reforms: 1855-1914; Ben Eklof.- Chapter 12. The Constitution of 1867, separate schooling, and the roots of division in Canadian Public Education; Anthony di Mascio.- Chapter 13. The Elementary Education Act of 1870: Landmark or Transition?; David Mitch.- Chapter 14. 'Hidden' Governance or Counterfactual Case? The U.S. failure to pass a National Education Act, 1870-1940; Nancy Beadie.- Chapter 15. Forming the national body and framing the national minds: Constitutions, nation states, and the school laws in the long 19th century in Europe; Daniel Tröhler.