UID:
almafu_9959241467102883
Format:
1 online resource (415 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-04-34867-0
Series Statement:
Library of the Written Word, Volume 61
Content:
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.
Note:
Front Matter --
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Copyright Page --
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Dedication --
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Acknowledgements --
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List of Illustrations --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Introduction /
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Empire and Enlightenment --
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Building Religious Communities with Books: The Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650–1710 /
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Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-House Library in the Mid-Eighteenth Century /
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Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica /
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Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695–1825 /
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Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Library of Naturalist José Vieira Couto /
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Revolution and Nation Building --
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Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library Collections /
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Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771–1850 /
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Challenging Institutional Ambitions: The Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789–1795 /
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A “Quaint Corner” of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780–1830 /
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Institutionalisation and Expansion --
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From Private Devotion to “Public” Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and Their Benefactors /
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The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810–1825 /
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Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: The Easton Library Company /
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Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston /
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Public Libraries --
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Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries /
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From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain /
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Back Matter --
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Bibliography of Secondary Works.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-34866-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
