School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling

Chapter 1 The History of School Acts

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

Chapter 3 Schooling and the Administrative State: Explaining the Lack of School Acts in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Chapter 4 E Pluribus Unum: One Swiss School System Based on Many Cantonal School Acts

Chapter 5 Education in a Nation Divided: The Contribution of School Acts to the Development of Dutch Mass Schooling in the Long Nineteenth Century

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

Chapter 7 Citizens in Their Right Place: Nation Building and Mass Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France

Chapter 8 School Acts and Elementary Education in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Chapter 9 Basic Schools in Each and Every Parish: The School Act of 1842 and the Rise of Mass Schooling in Sweden

Chapter 10 A Struggling Nation Since Its Founding? Liberal Italy and the Cost of Neglecting Primary Education

Chapter 11 From the Top Down? Legislation and Public Initiative in Building a School System in Russia After the Great Reforms: 1855–1914

Chapter 12 The Constitution of 1867, Separate Schooling, and the Roots of Division in Canadian Public Education

Chapter 13 The Elementary Education Act of 1870: Landmark or Transition?

Chapter 14 “Hidden” Governance or Counterfactual Case? The US Failure to Pass a National Education Act, 1870–1940

Chapter 15 School Legislation, Mass Schooling, and Historiography