Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Baldi, Gregory, Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Schools in Postwar Britain and Germany. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood) 372 pp. 2022:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-1203>
ISBN 978-3-030-98155-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book deals with one the most contentious issues for Britain and Germany in the postwar era: namely the organization of primary and secondary stages in state general education systems. It is centered on an empirical puzzle. The current education systems in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) are frequently viewed as contrasting organizational types, yet both countries began the postwar period with similar 'tripartite' systems of separate schools in which pupils were selected at age ten or eleven for placement in separate schools that varied in prestige. In the 1960s and 1970s, center-left governments in Britain and the FRG sought to reform these systems, but only the British achieved significant change by largely replacing the tripartite system with the comprehensive school model, while Germany retained its selective and highly differentiated school system. What explains change in Britain and continuity in the FRG??

Quinn, Dermot, Seton Hall University: A History, 1856-2006. 408 pp. 2023:2 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <682-1204>
ISBN 978-1-9788-0694-8 hard ¥8,928.- (税込) US$ 42.95 *

Founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark, Seton Hall University has played a large part in New Jersey and American Catholic life for nearly two centuries. From its modest beginnings as a small college and seminary to its present position as a major national university, it has always sought to provide "a home for the mind, the heart, and the spirit." In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder's vision. Looking at the men and women who made Seton Hall what it is today, he paints a compelling picture of a university that has enjoyed its share of triumphs but has also suffered tragedy and loss. He shows how it was established in an age of prejudice and transformed in the aftermath of war, while exploring how it negotiated between a distinctly Roman Catholic identity and a mission to include Americans of all faiths. Seton Hall University not only recounts the history of a great educational institution, it also shares the personal stories of the people who shaped it and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.