Title Education and middle-class society in imperial Austria, 1848-1918 / Gary B. Cohen ; [maps by J. Mahlke]

Published West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: Social Development and Austria's Modern Educated Elites -- Education and the Modernization of Austria in the Mid-nineteenth Century -- Opening the Gates: Expansion of the Educational Network -- Guarding the Gates: The Social Politics of Education after 1880 -- The Changing Ethnic and Religious Recruitment of Students -- The Limits of Opportunity: Students' Occupational and Class Origins -- The Social Experience of Students: The Many Paths of Academic Education -- Conclusion: Education, Society, and the State in the Late Nineteenth Century -- App. A. Supplementary Tables -- App. B. Statistical Methods Summary The development of Austrian society in the nineteenth century was beset by enormous difficulties, including sharp social-class differences, an economic base that was developing all too slowly and unevenly, and, distinct from most of Western and Central Europe, a multiplicity of competing ethnic and religious groups. Against this backdrop, Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 - the first English-language book on the topic - examines Austria's educational system, which Gary B. Cohen characterizes as one of the major accomplishments of government and civil society under the Habsburg Monarchy in its last decades By 1910 Austria's secondary schools, technical colleges, and universities, pushed by a growing popular demand and pressures from local governments and interest groups, enrolled percentages of the school-aged population that roughly equaled, and sometimes exceeded, those in Germany. The rising social and political competition of Austria's ethnic and religious groups encouraged the expansion of education, and Czech and Polish national groups and the Jewish and Protestant religious minorities benefited particularly from the growing enrollments. These widening opportunities enabled lower-middle-class and even some working-class youth to join the modern educated middle classes. Only in light of the developments that are examined here can one understand the recruitment and formation of the bureaucrats and professionals who led the Austrian Republic and the neighboring states of East-Central Europe in the decades after 1918 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-378) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Middle class -- Education -- Austria -- History -- 19th century Middle class -- Education -- Austria -- History -- 20th century Education -- Social aspects -- Austria -- History -- 19th century Education -- Social aspects -- Austria -- History -- 20th century EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects. Education -- Social aspects Middle class -- Education Erziehung Bildungswesen Mittelstand Onderwijs. Middenklassen. Austria Österreich-Ungarn Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 95051646 ISBN 9781612490717 1612490719

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