Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria
Scott O. Moore, "Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria "
English | ISBN: 1557538956 | 2020 | 294 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1557538956 | 2020 | 294 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. There has been an assumption that the multinational Habsburg Monarchy did not, or could not, use their public schools for this purpose.
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