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Anja Werner. The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914. New York: Berghahn, 2013. 348 pp. Hardcover $120.00.

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Anja Werner. The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914. New York: Berghahn, 2013. 348 pp. Hardcover $120.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles E. McClelland
Charles E. McClelland*
Affiliation:
University of Texas (Medical Branch)
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 118 - 121
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References

1 Häuser, Franz, ed., Geschichte der Universität Leipzig 1409–2009, 5 vols. (Leipzig: Universitätsverlag, 2011) and Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar, ed., Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden, 1810–2010: Biographie einer Institution, Praxis ihrer Disziplinen, 6 vols. (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2010–2013).Google Scholar

2 Bonner, Thomas Neville, American Doctors and German Universities: A Chapter in Intellectual Relations, 1870–1914 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963) is mentioned in the bibliography, but its findings hardly used.Google Scholar

3 With all sympathies for the author, it took me twenty years to defeat similar archival impediments to research caused by war and dictatorship to write “Mas allá de Krause: Julián Sanz del Río en Heidelberg y la subcultura académica en la nueva Universidad de Madrid [Beyond Krause: Julián Sanz del Río in Heidelberg and Academic Subculture in the New University of Madrid],” in Matrícula y Lecciones, ed. Ballester, Jorge Correa (Valencia: Universidad de Valencia Press, 2012), 2 vols., II, 15–28.Google Scholar

4 See McClelland, Charles E., “American Examples for German Universities: Admitting Women before World War I,” in Metamorphosen der Bildung. Historie—Empirie: Theorie, ed. Keiner, Edwin, et al. (Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2011), 686–94.Google Scholar