The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914

von Anja Werner

344 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: European Studies in American History
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780857457820
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2013
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books