Before the public library: reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

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 libra...

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Main Author: Bautz, Annika 1977- (Author)
Other Authors: Towsey, Mark R. M. (Editor), Roberts, Kyle B. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2018]
Series:Library of the written word volume 61
The handpress world volume 46
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:XVII, 415 Seiten Illustrationen, Plan, Diagramme, Karte, Portrait
ISBN:9789004348660

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