How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system

In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a r

In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment convict

Provocative assessment of how new ideas about motherhood and domesticity in pre-Revolutionary France helped women demand social and political equality later on

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of educa