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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Werner, Anja,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: European Studies in American History ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

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.

Table of 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