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The Transatlantic World of Higher Education : Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914 / Anja Werner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: European Studies in American History ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857457820
  • 9780857457837
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1
LOC classification:
  • LA729.A3 W47 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources and Quotations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Movement and the History of Higher Education -- Chapter 2 US Student Numbers at Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, and Leipzig -- Chapter 3 The German University, Masculinity, and “The Other” -- Chapter 4 Choosing a University: The Case of Leipzig -- Chapter 5 Transatlantic Academic Networking -- Chapter 6 Networking Activities of Leipzig’s American Colony -- Chapter 7 Forging American Culture Abroad -- Chapter 8 Returning Home -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Figures -- Appendix 2: List of Leipzig Professors of Interest to US Students -- Appendix 3: List of Leipzig-American Dissertations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources and Quotations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Movement and the History of Higher Education -- Chapter 2 US Student Numbers at Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, and Leipzig -- Chapter 3 The German University, Masculinity, and “The Other” -- Chapter 4 Choosing a University: The Case of Leipzig -- Chapter 5 Transatlantic Academic Networking -- Chapter 6 Networking Activities of Leipzig’s American Colony -- Chapter 7 Forging American Culture Abroad -- Chapter 8 Returning Home -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Figures -- Appendix 2: List of Leipzig Professors of Interest to US Students -- Appendix 3: List of Leipzig-American Dissertations -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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