Author: HEATHORN, STEPHEN
Title: For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914 (Studies in Gender and History)
Description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802044360. 300 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in this study of the English elementary school system at the turn of the century. Analyzes how a specific ideal of English national heritage was consciously nurtured by the professionalizing educational establishment of the period. Implicit in this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinction." - dust jacket. Book very clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914 (Studies in Gender and History) Nationalism and Education England History Study Teaching Elementary Working Class. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0802044360 : 1880 1914 ( ) Women's Issues