For Home, Country, and Race : : Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914 / / Stephen J. Heathorn.
The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in Stephen Heathorn's study of the elementary school system in England at the turn of the century. His book analyses how a specific ideal of English national heritage was consciously nur...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Gender and History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading the Nation - Elementary School Culture and National Identity
- 1. Citizen Authors and the Language of Citizenship
- 2. The Syntax of National Identity: The Liberal Master Narrative
- 3. Ethnicity and National Belonging
- 4. Imagining the Racial 'Other' Within
- 5. The Home of the Race': The Familial Imaginings of National Identity in Elementary Schooling
- 6. Narratives and Rituals of National Belonging
- Conclusion: 'For Home, Country, and Race'
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter