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Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by James van Horn Melton (Hardcover, 1988)

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Compulsory schooling is widely held to be a creation of modern industrial society. Yet already in the eighteenth century, Prussian and Austrian rulers attempted to introduce universal education in societies that were overwhelmingly rural and 'premodern'.