A Nation's Readers: Cultural Integration and the Schoolbook Canon in Wilhelmine Germany

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“…These laws illustrate how a common identity can be shaped through demarcation (Kühne, 1997 (Kennedy 1997).…”

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Nation building: The role of central spending in education

Cinnirella

Schueler

2018

Explorations in Economic History

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“…Because Southwestern schools, like the ones in Germany, 54 aimed at creating useful and loyal German citizens, great emphasis was placed on teaching German, local history, physical training, and handwork. The existence of Afrikaners and the colony's distance from the homeland made instruction in these subjects even more important.…”

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Creating Germans Abroad

Walther

2012

European Education

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“…stressed life in the community and encouraged patriotism (through so-called vaterländische Er-ziehung) by allowing the various region-specific readers to use the particularities of each Prussian region to evoke a feeling of homeland (Heimat) (Kennedy 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%