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Institutions of Reading : The Social Life of Libraries in the United States /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carpenter, Kenneth E., 1936-, Augst, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social libraries and library societies in eighteenth-century North America / James Raven
  • Subscription libraries and commercial circulating libraries in Colonial Philadelphia and New York / James Green
  • A great and natural enemy of democracy? : politics and culture in the antebellum Portsmouth Athenaeum / Michael A. Baenen
  • "An association of kindred spirits" : Black readers and their reading rooms / Elizabeth McHenry
  • Boston library catalogues, 1850-1875 : female labor and technological change / Barbara A. Mitchell
  • Faith in reading : public libraries, liberalism, and the civil religion / Thomas Augst
  • Domesticating Spain : 1898 and the Hispanic Society of America / Elizabeth Amann
  • Women writers and their libraries in the 1920s / Karin Roffman
  • The library as place, collection, or service : promoting book circulation in Durham, North Carolina, and at the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1925-1945 / Janice Radway
  • Blood and thunder on the bookmobile : American public libraries and the construction of "the reader," 1950-1995 / Christine Pawley
  • Toward a new cultural design : the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and libraries in the 1930s / Kenneth Carpenter
  • Scarcity or abundance? : preserving the past in a digital era / Roy Rosenzweig.