Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Book History
Antal sidor:159
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030204259

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Lara Atkin is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Sarah Comyn is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded ‘SouthHem’ project.Nathan Garvey is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government.- 3. Cultivating Public Readers: Citizens, Classes, and Types.- 4. ‘A mob of light readers’: Holdings, Genre Proportions, and Modes of Reading.- 5. Knowing the ‘Native Mind’: Ethnological and Philological Collections.- 6. Conclusion.