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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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Hlavní autoři: Atkin, Lara (Autor), Comyn, Sarah (Autor), Fermanis, Porscha (Autor), Garvey, Nathan (Autor)
Korporativní autor: SpringerLink (Online service)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Vydání:1st ed. 2019.
Edice:New Directions in Book History,
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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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Obsah:
  • 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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