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The transatlantic world of higher education : Americans at German universities, 1776-1914 /
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 ap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Colección: | European studies in American history ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 o. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857457837 0857457837 129977783X 9781299777835 0857457829 9780857457820 |