Download or read book Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, c.1870-1930 written by L. Brockliss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.