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Libraries and enlightenment : eighteenth-century Norway and the outer world /

During the Enlightenment, other peoples, and also their cultures, were much discussed, with debates often focusing on their value as human beings and the level of tolerance that they were to be granted. Books on 'outer worlds', classified in libraries as historia, were an integral part of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahl, Gina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world in libraries
  • The idea of history
  • the art of classification
  • Inclusions, exclusions and major patterns of book dissemination
  • Worlds nearby and worlds distant
  • The world in books
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Russia
  • America.