Learning to Be Loyal: Primary Schooling as Nation Building in Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940 in Bloomington, MN

How do nations inculcate loyalty? In Learning to Be Loyal, Harp explorers the role of primary education as the means by which both France and Germany used the teaching of national language, culture, geography, and history to transform ordinary people's local and religious identities into national ones.