Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria

List of tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Administrative divisions of the Habsburg and Hohenzolln monarchies, 1780 Part I. Cultural and Religious Forces: 1. Popular schooling in early modern Prussia and Austria 2. The rise of Pietist pedagogy 3. From image to word: cultural reform and the rise of literate culture in Theresian Austria 4. The catholic appropriation of Pietist pedagogy: Johann Ignaz Felbiger Part II. Social and Economic Forces: 5. Mastering the masterless: cameralism, rural industry, and popular education 6. From compulsory labor to compulsory schooling: education and the crisis of seigniorial authority Part III. The Limits of Reform: 7. School reform in Frederickian Prussia 8. The Theresian school reform of 1774 Conclusion Selected bibliography Index.