Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

by Carl F. Kaestle, Maris A Vinovskis, Maris A. Vinovskis

Book Overview

This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the political system and the development of a common American culture. In recent years a social history perspective has emerged that stresses the socioeconomic influences that tie education to other institutions and processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102359
• ISBN13: 9780521102353
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"