Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience.

This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The volume outlines the main fea

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective

This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.

"[Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies denunciation