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Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

Towsey, Mark
Roberts, Kyle B.

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004348662
ISBN13: 9789004348660
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 5 2017
Pages: 418
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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.

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