Acknowledgments
Note on Sources and Quotations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Movement and the History of Higher Education
- Educational Dynamics
- Five Phases of Educational Reform and Student Migration, 1760s-1914
- Transatlantic Dynamics: Linking War and Education in America and Europe
- Regional Dynamics: The South in the History of US Higher Education
- Disciplinary Dynamics: Revisiting the Ideal of “German Science”
- Summary
Chapter 2. US Student Numbers at Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, and Leipzig
- The Challenges of Numbers
- Revisiting Existing Scholarship
- Different Student Statuses
- US Student Numbers Abroad I: Statistical Overview
- US Student Numbers Abroad II: Developments over Time
- Comparison: Total Student Numbers
- US Students’ Backgrounds: Regional Origins and Socio-Economic Backgrounds
- Religion
- Age
- Summary
Chapter 3. The German University, Masculinity, and “The Other”
- White Men vs. the Other?
- Matriculation Procedures for White Able-Bodied American Men
- African American Men
- Gay American Men
- White US Women
- Blind and Deaf Americans
- Summary
Chapter 4. Choosing a University: The Case of Leipzig
- The Appeal of Innovation
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations at Leipzig
- Antiquated Leipzig up to 1830
- On the Eve of Greatness: The Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Leipzig’s Sudden Heyday
- Leipzig’s Decline since the Late 1890s
- Summary
Chapter 5. Transatlantic Academic Networking
- The Idea of German-American Networks in Science and Scholarship
- US Students’ Faculty Choices at Halle and Leipzig
- Transatlantic Routes of Study
- Patterns in Transatlantic Mentor-Disciple Relationships
- Women’s Roles in Academic Networks
- Case Study: Wilhelm Wundt and his American Disciples
- Summary
Chapter 6. Networking Activitiesof Leipzig’s American Colony
- Formal and Informal Networking
- The American Students Club
- The American Church
- A Central Leipzig-American Networker: Caspar René Gregory
- Hospitable Families, the Knauths, and US Consuls
- Family and Friends
- Housing Matters
- Summary
Chapter 7. Forging American Culture Abroad
- Approaching a Foreign Culture
- The Guide Book
- Language Considerations
- Impressions of German Student Life
- Reflecting German Student Culture in Activities of the American Students Club
- Little America in Leipzig
- Summary
Chapter 8. Returning Home
- The German Venture and the Transformation of US Higher Education
- Shifting the Scientific-Scholarly Focus to North America
- Scouting Young Academic Talent in Europe
- Women’s Colleges as a Career Boost
- The Ph.D. Degree
- Material Improvements I: Libraries and Books
- Material Improvements II: Laboratories, Apparatuses, and Journals
- Summary
Conclusion
Appendix I: Tables
Appendix II: List of Leipzig Professors of Interest to US Students
Appendix III: List of Leipzig-American Dissertations
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