Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Transformations in Schooling -- PART I: Education and State Formation -- 1 Middle-Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate -- 2 Education and State Formation Reconsidered: Chinese School Identity in Postwar Singapore -- 3 How the State Made and Unmade Education in the Raj, 1800-1919 -- 4 Disciplining Liberty: Early National Colombian School Struggles, 1820-1840 -- PART II: Politics, Ideology, and Policy -- 5 Historic Diversity and Equity Policies in Canada -- 6 Conference Litmus: The Development of a Conference and Policy Culture in the Interwar Period with Special Reference to the New Education Fellowship and British Colonial Education in Southern Africa -- PART III: The Market, the State, and Transformations in Teaching -- 7 The Teaching Family, the State, and New Women in Nineteenth-Century South Australia -- 8 Transformations in Teaching: Toward a More Complex Model of Teacher Labor Markets in the United States, 1800-1850 -- PART IV: Culture, Identity, and Schooling -- 9 From Spaniard to Mexican and Then American: Perspectives on the Southwestern Latino School Experience, 1800-1880 -- 10 Struggling for Voice in a Black and White World: The Lumbee Indians' Segregated Educational Experience in North Carolina -- Conclusion: Reflections on the Historicality of Education Systems -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.