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Author | : Lara Atkin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2019-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303020426X |
Download Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
Author | : Bernadette A. Lear |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822988631 |
Download Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public charts the history of public libraries and librarianship in Pennsylvania. Based on archival research at more than fifty libraries and historical societies, it describes a long progression from private, subscription-based associations to publicly funded institutions, highlighting the dramatic period during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when libraries were “thrown open” to women, children, and the poor. Made Free explains how Pennsylvania’s physical and cultural geography, legal codes, and other unique features influenced the spread and development of libraries across the state. It also highlights Pennsylvania libraries’ many contributions to the social fabric, especially during World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Most importantly of all, Made Free convincingly argues that Pennsylvania libraries have made their greatest strides when community activists and librarians, supported with state and local resources, have worked collaboratively.
Author | : Sean D. Moore |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192573411 |
Download Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Public libraries |
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Author | : Roy Arthur Flood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Cheryl Beredo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : 9781936117727 |
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"Examines the role of archives in the United States' colonization of the Philippines between 1898 and 1916"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Fiske Kimball |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015659551 |
Download Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Austin Baxter Keep |
Publisher | : New York : B. Franklin |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Download The Library in Colonial New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nathan Garvey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781013274466 |
Download Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 imbricated colonial and metropolitan 'intercultures', it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book's six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed 'Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere' digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author | : Charles T. Laugher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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