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Innocents Abroad: American Students at British Universities in the Early Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Paul Nash
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In the eighteenth century, American education, like American culture, was not self-sufficient: its acropolis lay in Britain. Students interested in medicine took their training at London or Edinburgh; ministers were continually recruited in the mother country; a few years at one of the Inns of Court still provided the best training in law; significant numbers of Americans attended Oxford or Cambridge, seeking “a gentleman's education.”

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1961 , pp. 32 - 44
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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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