Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

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This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and 'new imperial history' paradigms that privilege imbr...

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Main Authors: Atkin, Lara (Author), Comyn, Sarah (Author), Fermanis, Porscha (Author), Garvey, Nathan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:New Directions in Book History,
Subjects:
Books > History.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature.
History of the Book.
Literary History.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
World Literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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