Urban Education in the 19th Century

<p>First published in 1977 <i>Urban Education in the 19th Century</i> is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political geographical demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems especially for child life as well as to the realities of urban change</p>