Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten essays exploring the outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America, the contributors direct particular attention to regions, communities, and groups whose a...
This book tells the story of efforts by London 's education services to prevent truancy and to help children to benefit from going to school. Set against 120 years of a unified education service for the metropolis, it tackles issues such as the impact on schooling of poverty and social class and raises important questions about future policy to help children in school.
