This volume is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference were ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporary world. Older discourses on national sovereignty and statehood are evaluated in terms of their validity within a world increasingly defined by transnational integration and global economic competition.

This set reprints hard-to-find works of Friedrich Frobel, as well as key papers discussing the methods of this influential 19th-century pioneer in pre-school education.

This set reprints hard-to-find works of Friedrich Frobel, as well as key papers discussing the methods of this influential 19th-century pioneer in pre-school education.

This set reprints hard-to-find works of Friedrich Frobel, as well as key papers discussing the methods of this influential 19th-century pioneer in pre-school education.

This set reprints hard-to-find works of Friedrich Frobel, as well as key papers discussing the methods of this influential 19th-century pioneer in pre-school education.

This set reprints hard-to-find works of Friedrich Frobel, as well as key papers discussing the methods of this influential 19th-century pioneer in pre-school education.

This book illustrates how texts of German educationist Friedrich Froebel and those of his interpreters were read in England and what consequences these readings had for the education of young children in nursery and infant schools during the nineteenth century.

This volume is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, "Worlds of the Future". The central themes of the conference were ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporary world. Older discourses on national sovereignty and statehood are evaluated in terms of their validity within a world increasingly defined by transnational integration and global economic competition.