The Transatlantic World of Higher Education : : Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914 / / Anja Werner.
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 app...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Studies in American History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
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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