This is a very important new book, bringing together the work of some of the world's leading historians of education. Lively and provoking, this volume is a timely and most welcome addition to historical research on 'transnationalism', showing how ideas are communicated around the globe, and how gender impacts on the construction of those ideas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the History of Education.

Deirdre Raftery is a historian of education at University College Dublin, with special interest in female education in the long nineteenth century. She is currently completing her twelfth book, on women religious (nuns) and missionary education. She was editor of History of Education (Routledge) for five years, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Marie Clarke is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University College Dublin. She researches and publishes in the areas of History of Education, Higher Education, Education Policy and Teacher Education.

1. Teaching Sisters and transnational networks: recruitment and education expansion in the long nineteenth century 2. Education for girls in Ireland: secondary and vocational curricular provision 1930-1960 3. Gender, cosmopolitanism and transnational space and time: Kasuya Yoshi and girls' secondary education 4. Beyond centre and periphery: transnationalism in two teacher/suffragettes' work 5. Teaching morality and religion in nineteenth-century colonial Algeria: gender and the civilising mission 6. Our Boys: the Christian Brothers and the formation of youth in the 'new Ireland', 1914-1944 7. Mobilising Mother Cabrini's educational practice: the transnational context of the London school of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 1898-1911 8. 'A position of usefulness': gendering history of girls' education in colonial Hong Kong (1850s-1890s) 9. Teacher mobility and transnational 'British World' space: the League of the Empire's 'Interchange of Home and Dominion teachers', 1907-1931 10. They came with a purpose: educational journeys of nineteenth-century Irish Dominican Sisters 11. William Graham Brooke (1835-1907): advocate of girls' superior schooling in nineteenth-century Ireland