Knowledge is Power!: The Rise and Fall of European Popular Educational Movements, 1848-1939

by Tom Steele

This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039105639
• ISBN13: 9783039105632
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"