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Before the Public Library

Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
BuchGebunden
436 Seiten
Englisch
Brillerschienen am05.12.2017
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextBefore the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-90-04-34866-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum05.12.2017
Seiten436 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 163 mm, Höhe 241 mm, Dicke 30 mm
Gewicht998 g
Artikel-Nr.43585526
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionâMark Towsey and Kyle B. RobertsPart 1: Empire and Enlightenment1 Building Religious Communities with Books: The Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650-1710âLouisiane Ferlier2 Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-House Library in the Mid-eighteenth CenturyâMarkman Ellis3 Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-Century JamaicaâApril G. Shelford4 Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695-1825âJames J. Caudle5 Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Library of Naturalist José Vieira CoutoâJúnia Ferreira FurtadoPart 2: Revolution and Nation Building6 Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library CollectionsâCheryl Knott7 Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771-1850âSue Roe and Loveday Herridge8 Challenging Institutional Ambitions: The Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789-1795âRob Koehler9 A Quaint Corner of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780-1830âKatie HalseyPart 3: Institutionalisation and Expansion10 From Private Devotion to Public Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and Their BenefactorsâRachel Eckersley11 The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810-1825âAnnika Bautz12 Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: The Easton Library CompanyâChristopher Phillips13 Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices´ Library of BostonâLynda K. YankaskasPart 4: Public Libraries14 Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public LibrariesâTom Glynn15 From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in BritainâAlistair BlackBibliography of Secondary WorksIndexmehr

Autor

Mark Towsey PhD (2007), University of St Andrews, is Reader in Modern British History and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool.

Kyle B. Roberts PhD (2007), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of Public History and New Media in the History Department and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.
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