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- Citizenship, nation, empire: The politics of history teaching in England, 1870–1930
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
Citizenship, nation, empire investigates the extent to which popular imperialism influenced the teaching of history between 1870 and 1930. It is the first book-length study to trace the substantial impact of educational psychology on the teaching of history, probing its impact on textbooks, literacy primers and teacher-training manuals. Educationists identified ‘enlightened patriotism’ to be the core objective of historical education. This was neither tub-thumping jingoism, nor state-prescribed national-identity teaching, but rather a carefully crafted curriculum for all children which fused civic as well as imperial ambitions. The book will be of interest to those studying or researching aspects of English domestic imperial culture, especially those concerned with questions of childhood and schooling, citizenship, educational publishing and anglo-British relations. Given that vitriolic debates about the politics of history teaching have endured into the twenty-first century, Citizenship, nation, empire is a timely study of the formative influences that shaped the history curriculum in English schools
Table of Contents
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- Founding editor’s introduction
- pp. viii-ix
- Acknowledgements
- pp. x-xi
- Note on the text
- p. xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Part I: Contested histories: the teaching of history in its ‘golden age’
- Part II: Imperial values and enlightened patriotism in the teaching of history, c. 1880–1930
- 6. History in war and peace
- pp. 147-170
- Conclusion
- pp. 171-183
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 184-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9781847799999
Related ISBN(s)
9780719080128, 9781526149350
MARC Record
OCLC
981861605
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-09
Language
English
Open Access
No