Preface List of Contributors Note on Timelines and Glossaries General Introduction PART I: THE BRITISH ISLES Introduction Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School; S.Wright Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930; H.Ellis Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930; D.Raftery & M.Relihan PART II: CONTINENTAL EUROPE Introduction From the Zwergschule (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870–1930; G.Budde Schools are Society's Salvation': The State and Mass Education in France 1870-1930; J.F.Chanet Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870-1945; B.Eklof PART III: THE WIDER WORLD Introduction 'To Become Good Members of Civil Society and Patriotic Americans': Mass Education in the United States, 1870-1930; E.Berg Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: Progress and Tensions; M.C.Soares de Gouvea & A.F. Schueller The Role of Mass Education in Nation Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930; N.Cicek PART VI: THE COLONIAL EMPIRES Introduction 'Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa': Race, Class and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony; S. E. Duff India's Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood; N.Kumar Index