This book contains the following papers from a European research seminar examining the history and theory of cross-cultural communication in adult education: "Introduction: Encounters and Identities in European Adult Education since 1890" (Barry J. Hake, Stuart Marriott); "The University Extension Movement (1892-1914) in Ghent, Belgium in Comparative Perspective" (Dirk van Damme); "Adaptation of an Educational Innovation: The Introduction of University Extension into the Netherlands, 1890-1920" (Xandra de Vroom); "A Science of Democracy: An Outline of the Development of University Extension in Europe, 1890-1920" (Tom Steele); "The Popular Universities in Europe, 1890 to 1920: What Was Being Popularized?" (Stuart Marriott); "University Extension in the United States: The English Connection" (Janet Coles); "Ruskin and Morris in the Netherlands: An Exploratory Study of Their Influence on Dutch Adult Education" (Bastiaan van Gent); "The Arbeiterbuchgemeinschaften in the Weimar Republic: An Instrument of Cross-Cultural Adult Education?" (Angelika Kaus); "Labour and Cultural Transfer: Work Camps in the West, 1918-39" (John Field); "'Folk High School' or 'Voluntary Labour Camp'? Residential Educational Provision for Young Adults in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1930s" (Barry J. Hake); "Rolf Gardiner: An Inter-War, Cross-Cultural Case Study" (Malcolm Chase); "Contested Concepts: The Development of Education in British India from the Early Years to 1920" (Richard Taylor); "The Introduction of University Adult Education into Anglophone Africa: The Case of Ghana" (Colin Titmus); and "Adult Education as Intercultural Communication" (Folke Glastra and Erik Kats). (MN)